Some historians tell us that
about 30,000
plus years ago
something occurred in the history of our evolution
called the cognitive revolution.
There are other revolutions that occurred,
you know the age of agriculture about 12,000 years ago.
The industrial age more 3, 400 years ago. And now the information age maybe even
100 years ago.
But the most spiritual of these was something called the cognitive revolution.
And we're also told that until then
there were about eight different
human species the human family.
So we are homo sapiens give ourselves that name means the wise ones,
give ourselves that name out of humility.
But then we gave names to other species, neanderthals, floresiensis,
etcetera.
And then
apparently at this time all humans had a language only for three things
food
and danger and sex because these three things are necessary for survival
but then one
species, us,
We created a language for telling stories
and with stories including gossip, money
and other stories, latitude longitude Greenwich mean time etcetera.
We actually
created what we now call the human civilization all a result of language and
storytelling which created of course what we call human constructs
and now we are
at a stage where actually
we confuse human constructs with fundamental reality that allowed us to create
human constructs and that fundamental reality
of course is consciousness or awareness.
But now let's talk about language for a little bit because
if you understand the power of language you understand
the power
that created not only human civilization but can take
us to the next step in our evolution.
What is language?
Language is the symbolic representation, I believe,
of our experiences and the ability to communicate them.
And so of course there's oral language which is the symbolic
representation of experience and the ability to communicate that through sound.
There's written
oral languages now.
Yeah, about 30,000 years and written language is only 5000 years
and with the creation of language, the human brain expanded,
the cerebral cortex expanded.
There's a clue here. The brain doesn't produce language.
Language produces the brain.
Of course,
there are centers in the brain for language but there are
neural correlates of language and the more we use language,
the more we
actually
expand our ability
to create neural networks to express language.
But here's a very important point. The brain does not produce language.
Language produces the brain.
Of course,
I know many people will disagree
with this
so be it.
So there's oral language,
there's written language which is the symbolic representation
of experience and the ability to communicate it through
through basically squiggles, symbolic representations and they're different in
different areas of the world.
Same concepts
claim ideas,
different squiggles and different sounds
and then there's body language and sign language and all that.
But let's stick just with the
most remarkable understanding here is the ability of consciousness to use
just about anything
that we have in our biology
to create language.
Let's take oral language.
I'm communicating to you right now through words and sounds. So what is this?
It's the vibration of
air
over here through the vocal cords. So I decide I have to say something to you
and then I say it and this thing starts to vibrate, transmits
vibration of air molecules which then hits the timpanic membrane.
And you know, cause some disturbance in the Celia,
the hairs which sends an electrical impulse to the brain.
Electro chemistry happens.
And boom, you're understanding what I'm saying
and same thing.
If I use sign language or written language, the input is through the five senses,
Okay.
In the case of written language,
through the eyes and in the case of body language also
through the eyes and sign language also through the eyes.
But the final pathway is the same electrical
current or action potential in the brain,
electrical electrochemical activity and voila,
we have communicated with each other.
So how this happens?
How does electricity and electro chemistry do this is part of the
hard problem of consciousness and I think we've got the model wrong.
So, um, that's why the two fundamental questions
of
in science, the two most open questions can't be answered what's the universe made of
and
what is the biological basis of consciousness. So here's the correction we need,
the universe is consciousness.
It's not made of consciousness. You can say that, but it is
formless consciousness
is infinite possibilities.
Irreducible,
fundamental
without cause spaceless, timeless,
unimaginable,
non perceivable, non conceptual Izabal.
But a field of infinite possibilities. Infinite correlation,
unpredictability, creativity, and the source of attention and intention.
That's consciousness
and it's formless. So formless consciousness
is fundamental reality
and the form that consciousness assumes is the universe.
But even the universe is a species specific experience.
My universe is different
than a dolphin universe
and or any other species with leaky margins. But now let's go back to language. Okay,
consciousness
without form
is fundamental reality.
Consciousness as form is the universe
in in
Vedanta, this is called Brahman and Brahmand. And your soul is an aspect of
the larger cosmic consciousness of Brahmand.
So your soul is a microcosm
and the universe you experience is a microcosm and that universe includes your mind,
your body
and
the world that goes along with it
and the brain of course.
So
isn't it remarkable that we can use breath or air molecules
to communicate experience and then we can use body language to communicate
experiences.
But here's the fundamental flaw
in our current understanding of language, brain and communication
and that is, we have a physicalist model that is unable to explain any experience.
leave alone the ability to communicate the experience.
So here's the right model and it's not something I created,
It comes from Sages and seers and and people who have delved
deeply into the nature of experience and the source of all experience.
So this is how it starts according to this model.
Consciousness, infinite,
acausal, fundamental, modifies itself as feeling.
Feeling. The refinement of feeling is mind
mind
Mind is a modification
of consciousness as it feels its way through the world.
And then
that feeling creates knowing
that knowing becomes the intellect,
Okay, the feeling and the knowing.
The mind and the intellect identify with certain
experiences and that becomes the ego identity.
And then this mind intellect, ego, which is the subtle body
actually
moves through prana
and becomes the experience of the physical body.
The perceptual activity that we call the
physical body all the way from fertilized egg
all the way to dusty death.
This body is a perceptual activity
in consciousness and this body's perceptual activity
corresponds to the
perceptual activity
of
the universe
and all this.
I can
communicate to you
just by vibrating
the breath.
This is the miracle
of creation,
The miracle of language.
The Miracle of consciousness
and the miracle of existence.
Tell me if this makes sense to you or should we go back to the old models? You know?
Darwinian evolution,
Random mutations, natural selections.
Let's say that was true.
Let's say that was all true. How do you rationalize?
Sorry, random mutations end up creating a brain capable of logic and rationality.
Just answer that, someone?
You see our current models are not enough to explain
any experience.
Therefore
we need
a radical
radical
change in our understanding of reality.
Thank you, I'll wait for your feedback.