Primal communication ability
May 11th, 2008 at 9:24 am (Ancient Science)
My thoughts about language
The evolution of language is a progress that came thru our mental process.
There would be no evolution in any possible way if it wasn’t for our quite sophisticated mental process. That only indicates that we genetically have the ability to do it. Language is an ability of thought and vision, expressed into a physically based coding system. If we never had the ability to communicate and find a middle ground between us thru out the process of thought, we should never have been able to form a language. So language simply expresses our basic mental ability of communication. A genetic potential expressed in an intellectual manner.
If we couldn’t think, we would be good as dead. What define our lives is thinking, an unconscious mind is that of a dead mind. Biologically if we think, we are alive. What am trying to point out is that yes we did a great language development thru out the millennia but it will never fully express or match the sophisticated design of our mind. So it will never be the highest form of communication even though it has led into technological and many more types of revolution. Still, I don’t believe that it can fully express our genetically mental potential but only partially support a coherent form of communication within educational and sociological means.
Now days we have turned a portion of our mental processes into words of coherent thought. Language actually translates some mental processes into a code that we can understand and share with others. But it cannot match or even overcome the complexity of our minds. It cannot account for the complexity of the world itself. The code of language is not sufficient enough in order to translate the complexity of the world that we could otherwise perceive. With one word, this process is incomplete.
And we are very much dependant into our knowledge of words and sentences in order to think; our interpretation of these words as well the pool of these words that are available from person to person and the way that we combine them. So our process of thought is very dependant to language now days.
Our perception of thought is now based on a language system of coding; it is like our second nature. We think with words and images and we express part of our thoughts with words, as well with other chemical and body reactions. Lots of our thoughts still remain into the darkness of our minds, and even more of our thoughts, never been analyzed or taken into proper consideration, or even pointed out correctly. It seems that by coding our mental process with language, it makes it really hard to catch up with the complexity and speed that our brain operates at.
If through mental process we can create coding systems, languages, technology and so on, then through mental process we should be able to do exactly the same thing but not be dependant in the artificial way that we have implemented thru out history. All the artificial methods that we have used, have been developed only because we have already the ability and mental potential to do it anyways, artificially or not. Our design seems to be an amazing mechanism but we have never seen it this way, we have never realized that our achievements imply that we are a sophisticated model that is waiting to be discovered.
To summarise, we have artificially induce words into our mental process. But I wont go into extended analyzes or possible suggestions yet about this subject, as I would like first to continue on the ancient science evolution.
This is just my humble opinion; call it a feeling or a logical assumption. After all, inspiration is what moves the world.