Language is the Origin of Consciousness

Rough notes to be reworked later.....

The way was silent for a very long time.

There were no words for it.

There were grunts and moans and faces that made expressions; the eyes told men much.

Men made their way together before the word.

Then one day a man had a word. But he did not yet have someone to understand it.

When he had someone to understand his word, what that word referred to was made clear and stood clearly in the world. It was a thing. And the thing was separate and alone.

There was great use to this and more men learned the first word. There were more words then. And more things. The world was separating out into a place of things.

Projects could be accomplished much easier in this world of things. Men worked together more easily in the world of things. The words were magic.

He who made the new words found the new things, and the new ways to do things. He was keeper of the magic.

The words grew in number and complexity. There were even words that related words to other words.

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Consciousness is man examining himself with words. Making of himself a thing separated from the world.

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The great advance in the technology of language was writing. It allowed for a higher order of word making. This is turn allowed for a higher order of man describing himself with words. Man became his own exquisite thing. His advances in language made him otherworldly, broken entirely from the world. This is consciousness as it stands today. Man has become his writing technology.

Man even describes himself with other technologies as metaphors. The consciousness he created with words he now relates to a computer program.