Sunday, April 13, 2008

Jiggy 4/13

The world as we see it is a construction of the human mind. Every image, word and thought is processed through a conditioning of the brain to except words as absoulte truths. The only truth is that there is no truth to the process of language. We see the world around us through the words we learn in different languages, seeing the words in direct relation to given image. Imagine if we stripped the world of all preconceived assumptions of "reality" through language. How would our clean slate of a brain react the millions of images seen daily. Imagine not knowing what the blue was, how would you describe the sky? If you didnt know how to say words and relate them to different things what would the world be? It is amazing the billions are able to communicate on this planet. With all the disagreements and world problems the issue of understanding one another has never really came up. We have translations for almost every language and there seems to be no people left on earth who cannot communicate through a learned and shared system of language. Think about if we had to come up with language today, in our day in age. If six billion people were dropped on earth the chances that we could all come together to understand and agree would be amazingly slim. The truth to our world lies in the miracle of communication. Without it we are just as primitive as the apes before us, its what seperates our species from all others. The world as we know it is a product of widespred knowledge build on a foundation of shared communication. Knowing the facts, that language is just made up like a puzzle, is a key component on understanding the facets of everyday life and the meaning to life.