Tuesday, March 20, 2007

If i had no language would i have no thoughts?

What is the evolution of language? We have a genetic capacity for language, but which came first? If we evoloved language prior to our capacity, then why our we unique? if our capacity came first, then what was its orginal purpose?The abstract mind creaates a simulation of reality interanally. IT is this that we call consiuosness. Yet this simulation was created solely and compleatly by langouage. Robbed of all language, we are reduced to mere emotion driven animals. What did we think about prior to langauge or could we think at all? Was the creation of a language, as a genetic tool for communal hunting/survival, create an accidental path ot consiousness.

The speed of time...

Beyond the standard questions about time there is the issue of speed. I do not mean the speed of light or the like. There is a particuale speed that humand are tuned for. We do not see bullets travel in space, we do not see plants grow, we can not see mounters rise and fall. We see hours, days...we know of, but do not truly "see" years. But once we are beyond the confins a single lifetime, once the tie of firsthand experance passes, we know longer "see" or truly understand time. It is an aspect of quallia that both defined the "human" experance and limits it. WE may witness timelapse video or animated simulations, but this is mearly translating "non-human" time to something managable. But in the same way a scetch can similarly translate the enormaty of a high-rise, it totally looses it orignal grandure and meaning.

The Trianry thoery of substance/self/reality

There are three parts to "our" world. There is th material universe (MU), the genetic self(GS) and the abstract mind(AM).
The material universe exists independent of ourselfs, it is the trees in the cambrian forest; i have no way of knowing they exist but i acknowledge that there is a world exest extrernal to self.
The genetic self is the only material reality that we may know directly, that exists both independent of self and as an extetion of self in the material universe. The mind knows all of the external world via the genetic self, it has no capacity to experience the material directly but only thoguht the mediatio of the genetic self (the flesh)
The Abstract universe is that which thought existes, and only thought. It is the solipsistic universe, the simulation in the machine. Like a simulation, if may seem real to the object running the program. Does the computer know the WarCraft is a game or is it reality to it. Optical regonition software approximate the idea of perserving sendoriy data from the opital organ (the hardware of the computer is the gentetic self) of a room (the materail universe) and seeing a room, a table, a world (the abstract univerve). It is not that we are playing a simulation of the material world, we ARE the simulation, the combination of our genetic self (Body = hardware/PC) and our adbstract mind (mind = software/program) creates the simulation and the players of this game is the universe itself.
It is this the abstract mind that creates qualia. Even if we assume (and we can only do this, although with much confidence) there is a persitant substancance material world external to us and our experance, We all sence it thought our own unigue biologal organs, which will never give a complete duplicative redision. BUT even if we assume that what we experence is a duplicative one, our manifistation of that data in our abstract universe, the only on we KNOW, the experance of that data will be the unigue interpritation of our solipisitic world, created not by will but but the continual accumulation, interpitatotion, manipulation, deterioration and temporal existance. There is no absolute experance of Dog, everyone has a unique and particular abstract consept of dog, the product of there unique path though time and space.

So why is it possible people can communicate? if the abstract exist only in the mind, they how can anyone learn or transmit them?