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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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How likely is it that there is something fundamentally obvious about our surroundings that we haven’t picked up on yet?

Lets just say one day a caveman had 3 rocks in front of him but the idea of numbers hadn’t quite clicked yet. On some level he is aware there are 3 rocks in front of him but he doesn’t have a means like language to articulate the concept. The next day he has 5 rocks in front of him and he notices some are brown and some are grey. He separates the colours into 2 piles and notices that one pile is bigger than the other. The separation of the 2 colours is somewhat synonymous with counting here. Maybe some sort of revelation happens here where he notices that things that appear to be the same can be separated. Before he noticed colour, these rocks were all the same. But now they are different. Noticing that one pile is larger, he can now put value on the individual rock.

I’m not sure if I lost my point somewhere in there, or if that is indeed how the caveman learnt to count. I was just thinking the idea of numbers seem fundamentaly obvious now and help greatly with our understanding of the universe. Is it possible that there is something similar that we just haven’t had that “click” moment yet?
gpt
I think it is simple postulations like this that have led many philosphers of history to confess to epistemic ineptitude. Dan Dennett wrote a book, "Intuition Pumps (& other thinking tools) where Dennett describes how human technology and theory has evolved and aided in how we think and conceptualize our universe. A super basic example of this is the progression from language, to writing to mathematics. These are contemporary apparatuses of thinking that we all use somewhat inuitively everyday. 

Often acquiring and refining these tools is the laborious chore of one exceptional fellow who visits us every few centuries. Surely some day in the future, we'll encounter some new theorical instruments that will trickle down to the common people and make our epoch of the mind seem foolish and hilariously incompetent.