Contrast: the human is an autonomous, independent agent, separated from the world by "walls," a "glass pane"
and the world is based upon the Cartesian Duality (a.k.a. Rene Descartes) of a “mind-body and “I-it” separation and of material objects
And temporal dimensions can be segmented lineally into "past," "present," and "future"
Indigenous Axiom: Reality not divisible and compartmentalized into dualism, e.g., Cartesian Dualism of mind separate from body.