Spiritual concepts
Communication system
It may be helpful here to have the diagram and explanation of the Brain split into left and right brain to use as a reference
every complex self-organizing consciousness-possessing system (like a living organism) possesses the expediently evolved means of communication, including the language of words, the language of gestures, the language of odors, the language of dance, the language of colors, and so on
Communication is something common to numerous creatures, they just use different physical methods to us. My little dog makes all sorts of noises to communicate with us, he doesn’t just bark. We have vocal cords capable of quite complex noises, so we use them to talk, our dog doesn’t, but he tries nonetheless using sound and body language.
Writing and language are separate learned activities, but being able to communicate is a function with which we are born, we just have to find out how to use it.
In order to communicate we have to take our objectives, the Memory extract - memories - on which the communication is to take place or the Perception, as well as any Emotions that also need to be conveyed and turn it into an appropriate ‘communication’. If we want to use language, there is a further stage that involves taking the communication and turning it using the rules of language into words.
Language – that is, words and sentences – is thus a translation of something else, a conversion from non-linguistic images which stand for entities, events, relationships and inferences.
It sounds so simple, but the reality, as we know is hugely complex. According to the way we communicate we can give any number of different impressions.
This becomes even more complex when a person tries to relate spiritual input - the results of a spiritual experience.
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That is why organisms, to describe their inner states, use also the language of gestures, the language of dance, the language of singing, the language of hugging and kissing, the language of wagging, the language of tongue licking, and so on, that may be not understandable for a researchers.
That there is a system of communication separate from the learnt function of language, can be demonstrated when one sees what happens to patients with global aphasia. Patients with this illness are unable to comprehend language whether auditory or visual. In other words, they understand no speech when spoken to and they cannot read a single word or letter; they cannot even repeat a word or sound if you ask them to. But, whilst it is out of the question to maintain normal conversation with a global aphasic, it is possible to communicate
It is fairly clear from this that Learning is perfectly possible without language and that Memory is not organised around language, but may well be organised around other images or symbols of a more universal nature. To a large extent, the learnt function of language enables us to translate thoughts into words and sentences, and words and sentences into thoughts.
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