[ragnarok451]

What is the complex answer then? The parent's question is salient. Using your analogy as well, you could say humans see the world through the visual spectrum and reason about the world through that, although there is certainly much more to be observed beyond that spectrum - yet that is clearly sufficient for some subset of understanding.

[a_square_peg]

There are entire academic fields and researchers of cognitive science, linguistics and neuroscience trying to unravel this. The question seemed to be made without taking a minute to appreciate this fact.

[srcreigh]

Is ASCII sufficient for understanding a subset of Shakespeare?