Fast Us
| Looking at ourselves internally (the nature of
consciousness) and externally (the nature of human history), it is clear that our use of
language has become more and more abstract, far removed from the external, concrete
stimuli and situations which prompted the original develop of speech and words and
language thought. Today, we think, speak, write with great facility, great agility, and
great speed—and at a far remove from the world out there. Saber-tooth
tigers are no longer the problem they once were for us.
But what if our language and our internal physical reality are so
closely linked that, during the long period of increasing language facility, we have
unknowingly lost touch with certain neuro-linguistic effects which might have been one of
the primary causes (or effects) of the original development of language? |
