Original sentence: Talcott Parsons used the word "gloss" to describe how mind perceives reality.We are taught, he theorised, how to "put the world together" by others who subscribe to a consensus reality — which many disciplines, Zen for example, strive to overcome
Edited sentence: Different cultures create different glosses.Talcott Parsons used the word "gloss" to describe how mind constructs reality.This "filtering" is largely unconsciously created and determined by biology, cultural constructs including language, personal experience, belief systems, etcetera.We are taught how to "put the world together" by others who subscribe to a consensus reality — which many disciplines, Zen for example, strive to overcome