How did the words come about?
When we refer to something, we create a sound and assign it to an image:
The phonation of a word when naming an object by connecting in the mind gestures and sounds to this meaning is later generalized to include all the members of a new class of objects that are similar, but not necessarily identical.
Information is always transmitted through the same repetitions and emulations or associations and so learned, but not only that, an entire mental processing occurs simultaneously, as this is deeply connected to the way the brain, at that moment, identifies and stores the picked up information.
Language is a classification and the subsequent recognition of that memory. All you need is a word for every situation and the syntax is the key that combines the meanings.
The facts arriving inwards from single experiences can be transmitted out through spoken statements that hold vivid details, thanks to the high complexity of our own language’s syntax. All individuals, summing up experiences, do leave a mark of their own personal identity within the group as a result of their way of life. Our ancestors had ensured a legacy for the future generations that had guaranteed family subsistence, by inventing tools to live anywhere they choose, in new ways of life.
The human brain organizes everything we know and what we can recognize by storing it all up as groups of information. The backbone of our thinking is the classification of our sensory stimuli in a process that allows us to make many combinations by assigning name-words to things, in order to be able to employ them later.
Giving an invented name to an abstract concept enables it to be transmitted on as it is understood and to be cast in a number of forms that we can all share, taking part in a reality constructed from a number of collectively well established and well understood general meanings.
An equivalent reality interpretation involving two or more persons is crucial or objectivity, but there are some personal versions and interpretations of the real world at the linguistic level: the formal linguistic representations of external reality and the invented names of objects: the lexicons.
Lexes have models to build, configure and classify the facts, giving us personalized world interpretations and a particular ability to perceive these facts and plan for the future.
Our language is one effective communication program that deals well with the human survival needs as it is adjusted to our present-day physical and brain capabilities, just as it was in the past and will be in the future.
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