Signs of Life and Life of Signs

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We are so used to regard Language as a simple tool or medium for communication; in fact, it is more: Language is an extension of the mapprocessor of our brain to make the relations with the environment, inclusive the other people. Language is the creator of REALITY. Now you can put the question of what is Reality? To explain this, we need Language and what is Reality that reveals itself. THE SENSATION OF SPACE. Space is one of the primal sensations what you can experience yourself by exercising in discovering blindfolded an unknown environment. The result of this experiment is that you will go through the process of organizing the sensations which you experienced. You will start by giving a name or a description of what you touch, or to what you hear or smell. Any other feeling that pops up, you will try to describe in words. You are in a chaotic process in search of a stable mode, which is the name of the thing that you touch. Next thing that will happen is that you will associate a value or meaning to that name. You start talking about: left, right, under, above, close, far, cold, rough, hard, etc. Another important observation is that you only can come to these notions of sensations by being active: you have to move before you can encounter a feeling. When you hear a sound or smell an odor, the activity 55


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