Reply To: Language and consciencous

[Gerard Wood]

Thanks PopeBeanie. I’ve enjoyed many of your posts. I think that you agree with me that animals cannot envision the concepts that words enable us to. I just think that if we didn’t know certain words, we would not be even able to think of the concepts that they represent. For example – If someone had told you to Google something in 1970. Would you have been able to make sense of it at all? This seems to show that our language is evolving and because we have words that trigger concepts in different ways, we are thinking differently. Is that a little like a computer system that is programming itself?