I like this idea of considering the quantity of perceived uses as a lens to measure of our accurate perception of reality. It speaks both to the scientific understanding of reality (Is a photon a particle or a wave? Most accurate to say it's both...) and to the artistic ("Shall I compare thee to a summer's day..." or really any rich metaphor).

I've often felt that the yearning for God is so powerful because we long to believe there's a mind out there powerful enough to see things as they are, absolutely and unequivocally. We're limited to approximations by our senses and our intellect, but maybe if we're well-behaved enough we can go to heaven and talk to this guy and find out just how close we came to getting it right.