Guest guest Posted January 9, 2004 Report Share Posted January 9, 2004 Bill, Here are some more thoughts: Early man began to symbolize his phsical reality and assign sounds to communicate important survival knowledge. It's important to have a special sound for 'bear' so one knows to look and run. Some other animals have special utterance to signify the source of danger....Prairie dogs have a special chirp for raptors. When it is sounded, they all run to their holes. The neurons within the evolving human brain expanded this capacity to include other items within the enviornment.......and 'The Word' was born..... What started as a survival enhachement tool evolved into a devise that named and hence divided the flow of physicality into a perceptual separation.... This ability to name and catagorize has obvious survival advantages... but the inevitable course of this process would lead to man seeing himself as separate..... ....When the development of words for that which was directly experienced in the physical reality evolved into conceptualization for that which was experienced only within the mental realm...(feelings, memory, emotion etc) a world that existed symbolically was created and exists only within the mind of man. Perhaps this is the land " east of Eden " This is the world...that the sages tell us is only a dream.....in that it exists only within our own head.... This is the non-place.... from which we hope to escape...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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