utilizing our tendency towards compressing happenings into
   communicable patterns for shared understanding and generation of
   heuristics in which to attempt to comprehend happenings socially
   in an agreeable fashion.   "That's not an invention. That's a
   progression in comprehensive skills." someone replies. I see no
   reason that it had to have progressed that way. Had we been in a
   continual state of "reaction" we might never have tried. I can
   turn my answer into various "-ics" or words ending in "-try" if
   you like. If I must, I will say Heuristics, although that misses
   out on aspects. Or if I had take another step into academic
   style knowledge silos, I'll say Engineering. --- I don't know
   what distinction you're looking for. I've gone to the root. How
   many levels of abstraction from this progression that seems so
   very natural and obvious in your estimation before it becomes an
   invention?

   Can I say, "civilization?" Or is that a natural progression of
   family clan into artificial families, within which peaceful
   co-existence could occur whereby more academic pursuits could be
   pursued?

   How high up shall I go? --- Well, I would've started with
   "artificial pointed stick" but that would've been exaggerating
   the point a little. --- Inventing the segmentings of Time into
   cycles? I suppose I could go with that. == Inventing the
   segmentings of Time into cycles? I suppose I could go with that,
   although I have a feeling that we'll just go around and around
   back to the same spot in the conversation again if I do that
   tongue emoticon   ==