If you want to know why

enfieldacademy
Thu, 26 May 2011 18:26:05 +0000

Language is more likely to be a product of consciousness, rather than consciousness being a product of language.

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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? At least one must admit consciousness is enhanced by communication. Consciousness evolves WITH language, is what I would say. There is a lot of research neither of us now regarding language.

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.



No, I mean that you could not have existed in another time because the ingredients necessary for your existence did not exist then.



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.