Weren't We Just Talking About This?

A biologist writes about culture in terms that will seem quite familiar:

RICH AND SEEMINGLY BOUNDLESS as the creative arts seem to be, each is filtered through the narrow biological channels of human cognition. Our sensory world, what we can learn unaided about reality external to our bodies, is pitifully small.

He gives a litany of examples, to which we might add:  and all that's without the problems of apperception.