The Conceptual Lense That Is Layered Over Life.

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When we are all born into this amazing thing that we call reality. We are like blank slates, there is no memory, no opinion, no knowledge.

I remember seeing not to long ago a elderly man on the TV (Prince Phillip) of england. And he said that when children are very young they are completely ignorant. Meaning they have no knowledge of "how things are"

Let's look at this together.

So picture this. Your a child, a blank slate. And from a very young age your encouraged to start to speak.

It starts with simple words like, moma, Dada ect. Then as you continue to learn. Your encouraged to try to form sentences, and identity various different objects, & phenomena.

Let's take the sky for a simple example. Your parents start to point out that "thing" we call the sky, in the English language. And suggest that you try and say "sky" and after a while on your way to the park on a sunny day. You point up and say "look mum & dad that's the sky" and of course they reply, well done, you got it!

See how this starts to form a way of "knowing" the world through words.

What is a word? Well its a sound that we make with our mouths. 

It probley started off as us grunting and making various different sounds to try to communicate With each other. And as we adapted and evolved. The sounds started to form a sophisticated Language.

With this knew ability we could talk to each other. And off course we started describing the behavior and what not of reality itself. This way we start to also form a conceptual way of knowing the world. This is a mirror, this is a car, this is a house and so on.

This is what prince Phillip meant off course. And he would be right there is none of that when your a baby.

Let's not forget something very important, this way of making sense of the world is a human invention.

Its great we have the intelligence and capacity as a human species. To do this! Could you imagine if we didn't have access to our memory and every time you encounter a door knob, you have to learn all over again how it works, what its function is ect.

Not to mention walking! 

The body also has the capacity to learn various movements and be able to do it without thinking eventually.

Like making a cup of tea, tying your shoelace And so on.

Its our job to absorbe as much information as possible in order to survive.

Your mind is past

A thought is language (words)

Words are from the past. Learned in the past. 

Thoughts about the future also using the past data to predict, fantasize, project ect.

Identity

Well let's say something about how the identity may be formed. 

Well first of all you are born into a world of people all older than you and "know" more than you.

So they put everything they "know" on you. All there beliefs, ideas, concepts and so on. These things are taken as here say, but you trust that your parents know what's best. And a belief is formed.

This is you! 

I got your nose!

And so on.

If you can strip away at all this belief,Knowledge, opinion, judgment and of course identity ect. 

The truth that can not be communicated. Will be left.

Its empty there isn't anyone there to identify with anything.

The mind will all ways have something more to say, another question that needs to be answered.

But you will have to die.

To embodie that witch doesnt.

 

[Neo]

But is it just language? I see a baby gazelle born to it's mother on the plains of Africa. It's up and can walk in minutes, and straight away it needs labels for danger run, and mother. Even mothers milk. All these labels are essential to life. I see a human child coming into the world and seeing mama, a face a smile, it all starts to make sense, and they learn to grasp this world, to make sense of it. In fact as they grow, they embrace all our meanings and labels with childish excitement and joy.

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@Neo

This is the point thats trying to be made.

We are confusing the labels, ideas, 

With the actuality of what the words symbolize.

When you look at a tree its not actually a tree. 

A "tree" is a word 

Reality cannot be communicated 

But we think we "know" the world through words, but words are inventions.

Can you see this?

[Leo Gura]

@Neo Careful with assuming that a gazelle uses labels for danger, run, mother, milk.

And don't forget how big of a pain in the ass it was learning all these labels as a kid. Back then, none of it made any sense. Most of your reality had to be contructed out of thin air.

[Neo]

13 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

@Neo Careful with assuming that a gazelle uses labels for danger, run, mother, milk.

And don't forget how big of a pain in the ass it was learning all these labels as a kid. Back then, none of it made any sense. Most of your reality had to be contructed out of thin air.

Absolutely. My idea was a kind of hierarchy of meanings, but it's just conjecture and speculation. There are some theories out there about symbols that are known to humans and therefore possibly other animals in the subconscious, symbols in the visual field. Like a symbol for the mothers milk so the gazelle knows what to look for. It's fascinating to wonder how this might all work.