Re: trainlasting
craig king (ck31@ukc.ac.uk)
Tue, 19 Oct 1999 01:10:21 +0100
> > I don't know about your unconscious, but mine's
> > structured like a
> > language...
> > --
> > Matt Kozusko mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu
>
> How do you know, Matt? You aren't aware of your
> non-conscious processes - that's why they're called
> unconscious.
>
> Still, that statement is interesting to me. Do you
> mean you believe that your experience of reality is
> pre-structured by linguistic thought processes?
>
> --Mark
personally, i know that my ongoing experience of reality is endlessly
RE-structuring my linguistic thought processes but far enough to know that
reality is itself pre-structured by those very thought processes?
without those processes to conceptualise it all i wouldn't have a reality at
all, just 'objects and things' without meaning or any kind of order. utterly
formless? does the fact that a word like 'reality' (in fact all language) is
necessary to comprehend what's beyond our own bodies point to the conclusion
that we need those linguistic structures in the first place? not a creation
but a mental map?
and did that make any sense at all?
i'm suddenly very tired :-)
craig