The brain exists as a complex neuro-network of computer circuits endeavoring to untangle and reconfigure so to achieve optimal performance; I think this is what would be called evolution, as to a teleological question, well I'm not too sure.
I am certain, though, about the limit and power in which language can condition an individual to be degraded, and upgraded, into either subject or object.
The language I employ here, and indeed employ as a ploy since I've been infected with Logocentrism, is primarily one of that seems to reduce the human condition into the technologic.
By technologic, I mean the manner in which we discuss existence in the mere Mechanic, namely, that robotic rhetoric which dawned upon humanity upon the gathering of resources and of redistribution. (The question as to whether these technological and mechanical features enhance or lessen the human condition is a re-occurring debate in many areas of academia, pop culture, subculture, etc.)
Early proto-writing systems utilized ideograms and pictographs for the storage and transmission of information (this is what we can deduce, for could there be another reason than communication that the human condition, a terribly lonely creature, would invent (or discover?) such a body of knowledge? this begs another question), which then attach a symbol with association; this process yields a compressed unit of information; a block of data, name your metaphor.
Surely there followed an era wherein recording of goods and commerce necessitated an invention for tracking and controlling, and, indeed, it is now known that Sumerians in system of symbols known as cuneiform were the first to utilize communication for documentation of agriculture and manufactured goods.
Invention (discovery) through necessity? or necessity of invention (discovery)?
I am certain, though, about the limit and power in which language can condition an individual to be degraded, and upgraded, into either subject or object.
The language I employ here, and indeed employ as a ploy since I've been infected with Logocentrism, is primarily one of that seems to reduce the human condition into the technologic.
By technologic, I mean the manner in which we discuss existence in the mere Mechanic, namely, that robotic rhetoric which dawned upon humanity upon the gathering of resources and of redistribution. (The question as to whether these technological and mechanical features enhance or lessen the human condition is a re-occurring debate in many areas of academia, pop culture, subculture, etc.)
Early proto-writing systems utilized ideograms and pictographs for the storage and transmission of information (this is what we can deduce, for could there be another reason than communication that the human condition, a terribly lonely creature, would invent (or discover?) such a body of knowledge? this begs another question), which then attach a symbol with association; this process yields a compressed unit of information; a block of data, name your metaphor.
Surely there followed an era wherein recording of goods and commerce necessitated an invention for tracking and controlling, and, indeed, it is now known that Sumerians in system of symbols known as cuneiform were the first to utilize communication for documentation of agriculture and manufactured goods.
Invention (discovery) through necessity? or necessity of invention (discovery)?
Either way, the primary manner of communication seems one of coding, i.e. language. Thus we can see how the human condition is not so far from the robotic in its Mechanical and Technological affairs.
The above can be reduced to the following:
The biologic organism employs a coding (either invented or discovered) so to communicate (for whatever purpose) it's teleological means (if any).
Thus language, as Burroughs would agree, condition one to perceive reality in particular ways.
What I mean is that language in the brain allows for certain modes of thinking. Indeed, one seems limited by the range of expressive modes of thought allowed by the organism that is Word. Thus, there are particular kinds of questions to be asked at any given time in the history of metaphysics and humankind.
For example, an emerging curricula endeavoring through various fields in order to borrow terms and ideas from other institutions inevitably results in its own logical discourse, but first there must be dialogue. This newly emerged field of knowledge, while specialized and is thus concentrated, simultaneously tends to confine.
In academia, one would grow susceptible to the limit of this specialized language and thereby view the world in those terms, understand the world in those terms, navigate the world in those terms, and thus communicate in those terms.
We seem to become virtual people. In a virtual world. Living virtual realities. In virtual bodies. In our virtual nervous systems.
Reality exists within our perception, informed by our mode of thoughts that which is the product of coding. The program one follows is one's personal quest. That odd store or alleyway that beckoned your attention yesterday or some time in the future-past seems like a virus, an anomaly in your daily schedule, or what Neo would call "deja-vu," but so as to not allow an inter-ruption, your sense of order proves so strong and so concentrated that you ignore the periphery. The alley "program" was not fully developed for your existence and virtual reality. It might exists in and of itself, but that is not a matter of your matters, which is a wHole Other matter.
The question then remains as to how, or whether, these codices control or liberate us, and that, ladies and gents, is the Grand Substance, The Big Matter.
References:
Wikipedia on Sumerians
The Matrix (1999)
In the beginning, indeed, was the Word, and the Word was with God...
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Here's a section off of a Wired article on DARPA's research on the Word Organism.
"A little paragraph tucked away at the end of the Darpa project description illuminates this. “This workshop will [connect] our understanding of the neurobiology of narratives with models…salient to security concerns,” it reads.
Translation: How are people incited into political violence and wars? How can security threats be understood and prevented by better comprehending a local culture?"
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/04/darpa-explores-the-science-of-storytelling/
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ReplyDelete"Once scientists have perfected the science of how stories affect our neurochemistry, they will develop tools to 'detect narrative influence.' These tools will enable 'prevention of negative behavioral outcomes … and generation of positive behavioral outcomes, such as building trust.' In other words, the tools will be used to detect who’s been controlled by subversive ideologies, better allowing the military to drown out that message and win people onto their side."
http://www.wired.com/.../2011/10/darpa-science-propaganda/
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