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Language, notation and mathematics are useful artificial aids to thinking. There may be other artificial aids which could be invented if one had sufficient understanding of the brain system. With new notation it might prove possible to generate ideas as easily as we now develop them once they have been generated. For instance, it might be possible to invent a new word which would be functional in nature like 'and', 'if', 'but' or 'not. The function of this new word would be to compensate for the inherent limitations of the information ‑ processing system in the brain and open up new ways of talking and thinking. The word would ultimately have to justify its usefulness in practice, but its invention may not have been possible without an understanding of the nature of the system.