If you want to know why

BillyMc
Thu, 26 May 2011 18:41:59 +0000

This is a fair objection, but why do you think it’s more likely the other way around? Maybe you didn’t mean to say that, or if you did what makes you think that?

Because a being without consciousness would likely have trouble with language?



At least one must admit consciousness is enhanced by communication.

I must not admit it, though it seems a fair theory, though I can’t really make a fair comparison.



Some very curious studies, for instance, about what happened when isolated deaf kids (who didn’t have a language) were brought together to a school from all over some african country. While the adults were trying to teach them some standardized sign language, the kids ended up inventing there own language! And ten years after the program started the original kids at the school has trouble speaking it because it had evolved so much. Here it’s actually hard to say what happened (whether conscious spurred language or visa versa), because the kids were young. As they were growing up (as their brains were maturing and they were becoming more conscious, they were learning a language at the same time.

It’s hard to measure things based on isolated kids, since they don’t have the system of family early humans would have had. Also, a “language” of gestures, noises, and symbols has existed in some form well before humanity ever was.



What do you mean? Of course I could have! have you ever wondered why you perceive from the brain you from? Come on, it’s just as likely we could have been a person in another country, or a CONSCIOUS ALIEN on another planet. We have to try and broaden our perspectives here, I think.

So you don’t think your consciousness is tied to your brain? If it is, then a different brain (through different DNA) would yield a different consciousness, no?