Is this one of those images that speaks a thousand words, so to speak? About a behaviorally subconscious phenomenon, intellectually thought of as reification and more viscerally understood as our mind's habit of thingification? And put more simply, is it about an age-old problem with humanity's waking dream of a consensus reality? I mean why did the DeepAI.com algorithm create this image of objects atop a human head? In response to the prompt, "transcending confusion & the greater awakening?" As this blog-post asks the questions; "are words reality? & is humanity truly awake?" In an attempt to convey how language makes us humans feel like we are more conscious of reality, than we truthfully are.
With the question "are words reality" related to our unwitting habit of judging our own reality and the reality of the world around us. And the question "is humanity truly awake" is related to the functionally automatic nature of our adult behaviors. Like how learning to ride a bike becomes functionally automatic with practice, just like learning to drive a car did. In the same way learning to think, speak & write words became functionally automatic when we were children.
While the intellectual meaning of the word 'reification" relates to the feeling of realness, we humans subconsciously infuse into thought & spoken words, in our behaviorally automatic way of surviving in this world. With this overwhelmingly subconscious way of being in the world, also intellectually understood as the way we all imagine the abstract concepts of our human ideas about reality, are reality. As artistically shown in the representation of ideas as objects, in the image above.
As an artistic sense of the functionally automatic way we humans conflate―merge together―the subjective nature of our mind's, with the objective nature of reality. With the word subjective meaning―based on or influenced by personal feelings, tastes, opinions, or biases. Existing in the mind of an individual, rather than a universally verifiable fact. Like the way we all see the sun, regardless of the words we use to describe that experience? While the word objective means―factual, measurable, and independent of personal feelings. And is that the universal problem with humanity's multilingual varieties of a consensus reality?
Hence the image above presents an artistic impression of the personally private experience of feeling like the subjective nature of our mind's thought-words about reality, correspond to the objective forms of reality we all see. And mostly they do, as a form of allusion―a shorthand reference―to something a thought-word is not. For example, is the word hands a shorthand reference to those ambidextrous features of your human anatomy, on the end of your arms? A question that speaks to why I wrote about a simple truth, that the recursive nature of language makes humans feel like we are more conscious of reality, than we actually are. In the previous blog-post about developing a Christ-mind awareness of a simple truth.
And how the subconsciously orchestrated nature of our every behavior, sees us fail to notice the way we simultaneously describe and disguise reality, with reality-labeling words. A simple truth you can attest to, by looking at your hands and asking yourself; "how" is the word hands, making me consciously aware of the reality of my hands? As you see the surface-level reality of your hands, that is being received by the biological reality of your eyes.
And will you find yourself contemplating whether your eyes are biological organs of consciousness, and whether you are a biologically conceived creature? If you undertake this thought experiment on the subjective nature of your mind & the objective reality of your body? In the existential context of whether words are reality & whether humanity is truly awake? Or whether humanity suffers from the waking dream of a language determined consensus-reality? Meaning; the collective set of beliefs, norms, and shared assumptions that a society or group agrees to treat as true.
Like my own assumption that the words David Bates were truthful definitions of my reality. Rather than reality-labeling words, disguising the true nature of my reality. Right up to when I first read the book: Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self in 2007. And began to realize that words are not reality, and my behavioral conformity to a societal consensus-reality, means I am not truly awake. Whenever I use my vernacular―spoken by ordinary people―vocabulary to subjectively judge the objective reality of my own body, and the world around me.
A fortuitous chance upon an important book, that set me off on a journey of understanding the biologically receptive & psychologically projective nature of my human form of consciousness. A journey that has continued to create an intuitive sense that there a distinct confluence―flowing together―of science and spirituality. As humanity continues to evolve beyond the inborn nature of fear, ignorance, & suspicion, on our species journey towards becoming truly awake.
As we continue to wrestle with an age-old problem of the recursive nature of language, making us feel more conscious of reality, than we actually are. With the subconscious orchestration of our adaptive behaviors creating our autobiographical memory sense of self, and the world around us. As our subjective mind's narrative anchor, connecting our past experiences with our present identity. An anchor that generally speaking, remains unchallenged by the correspondence theory of truth. Which states that a belief or statement is true, if it accurately aligns with the objective facts in the world.
But does this official explanation of the correspondence theory of truth suffer from a consensus reality judgment of truth? Do the words "if it accurately aligns with the objective facts in the world" represent the cognitive illusions of knowing, inherent in language? And does our individual experience of adaptively learning to speak our Mother's tongue, through a behavioral process of suggestion and imitation, replicate the historic development of language, by our human species?
While in the existential context of whether humanity is truly awake. Can our species multilingual development of a consensus reality, within over 7000 different languages, be better understood as the personal experience of a waking dream? For example, if you type the words "can consensus reality be described as a waking dream?" into your preferred web browser search box.
Will you see explanations of your biological brain's power of predictive processing and the idea that humanity's sharable consensus reality is like a controlled hallucination? And if you type the words "RSA Animate The Divided Brain" into You Tube's search box, will you see this video about our divided brain and our grasping needs of survival, on your computer screen?
The acronym "WEIRD" stands for Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic. WEIRD was initially a useful reminder of the bias toward certain demographics in psychological research. Psychology as a field should instead adopt a practice of specifying the populations and regions under study.
And as I finish this realized being blog post, I can only hope that I've provided some useful food for thought about the universal reality of being human. Please let me know what you feel and think about this blog post, in the existential context of truth and falsehood.
No comments:
Post a Comment