Wise, being

From Vulgar Latin *sapēre, from Latin sapere, present active infinitive of sapiō (“I taste; I am wise”), from Proto-Italic *sapiō, from Proto-Indo-European *sh₁p-i- (“to notice”), from *seh₁p- (“to try, to research”).

Amazing. Dare to know. Dare to be wise. And sapere means “to be wise” via “to taste.” And by that they mean to notice. Which harks back to The Grunt. Whose nature is this: One person is calling to and impelling the other to Pay attention! to some location in space. That is the Basic and Original Command of The Grunt. It is Look over ____! — which we saturate by reading the speaker. Close to speaker (here) or away at the end of a pointing or by name (in the phonemic content of the grunt).

That is the original EVENT that will eventually become the Wisdom that is sapere. Wisdom resolves to taste. The sense of sapere combines these—tasting and outward attention. It is the person whose attention has been seeping outwards for so long that they taste space and its temporal possibilities, seeing immediately all chess-futures at once.