We have abused this particular way or representing experience, reducing our facility to model reality. We reduced experience to a single causative strand when we eliminated the harmonic elements of the auditory modality when we switched to speech from song, to words from sounds. We learned how to influence our environment and achieve specific goals because we concentrated on relationships between parts. Isolating small bits of experience we learned to predict sequences and control outcomes. With a mapping system stuck in narrative line interpretations of experience, we lost the bigger picture, we lost touch with simultaneity.
Sight is another of the main senses available for mapping experience.
It too has advantages and disadvantages. Vision is simultaneous, evocatively portraying multiple interconnections. It provides us with insight on the vast scale of the nature of experience and the intricacies and interconnectedness of the detail. Yet vision, as seen through a single eye, does not easily reveal cause and effect relationships between parts. A single experiential unit is being influenced by, and is influencing countless contiguous units, simultaneously.