Having had a few more years to develop my mind, I now realize that many stubborn conclusions I came to in the past are not any longer valid. For example, I always abhorred English class because I thought, “What’s the point of reading all these fictional stories and analyzing them?” Even worse was how I often thought, “What is the point of practicing these language skills anyways? My priorities lay in discovering the eternal truths of existence, and language is just a system that arose out of chance on our tiny little planet, and could have been anything!” In the grand scheme of things, I found language to be insignificant to me.
Only after coming to Dynamy and developing my knowledge and intuition am I now able to see how bitterly wrong I was. Let me begin by refuting my previous line of logic for deeming language insignificant. I believed it so because “it could have been anything”. Even now I cannot deny the validity of that statement, but I am afraid that I had been missing the point! The point is that, yes, it could have been anything. But, it had to be something! It’s not English that is important to study and analyze. It’s language itself. I speak not of any particular language, but of the idea of language. Language is absolutely essential to the thought process. It is a system for organizing our incoherent thoughts into a larger, coherent picture. What we don’t often realize is that we do in fact “think” using language. I believe our brain uses words as an indexing system for known objects, things, and ideas. Without this system, information would be incoherently jumbled around in our minds, with no easy way of calling upon useful thoughts in a timely fashion for the situation at hand. Also dependent upon language is our ability to tie together concepts in our mind that would otherwise be separate or unrelated, in order to conceive intelligible new thoughts and ideas. The limits of human ingenuity lie directly in the complexity of language. Quite frankly, I believe that if we made the English language staggeringly more complex, with tens of thousands of new words all with unique and distinctly complicated meanings capable of conveying the most subtle of notions, that we could ultimately increase human ingenuity and the average intelligence of the population.
Now that I am becoming more and more involved with philosophy and the fantastic world of theory and ideas, language skills are more relevant to me than ever before. Many of the ideas that I have been coming up with, such as my theory of circular eternalism (I will get into that in another writing), are very complex and abstract. From experience, I can tell you that trying to help someone understand what I understand on the matter is a very daunting task. People cannot easily wrap their head around the concepts. If only some form of telepathic inception were possible between humans, proper communication would be so much less arduous. If I could “plant” the same understanding that I have, the same intricate network of neurons that represents my understanding on a matter, in the mind of another, then my task would be a piece of cake. However, it really is disturbing to think about just how difficult it is for a human mind to interface with another. We had to invent this whole strange, intricate, external system for making internal connections to each other. Even after thousands of years of developing this tool for making connections to our peers, I still feel as though language is in a stage of infancy. But the point I wanted to make is that I feel as though language is one of my highest priorities, because it is absolutely necessary to me conveying my ideas. I feel as though there exists the perfect combination of words that could exactly convey an understanding of nearly equivalent intricacy in the mind of another, even if all the words to do so do not yet exist. But I will still spend the rest of my life refining my language skills and diction, because being able to make others understand what you’re talking about is the most important part of studying philosophy; otherwise, it’s really rather pointless. You don’t want to take all your incredible ideas and theories to the grave; otherwise, it will have been for nothing. It is my duty to refine my skills to the point where I can neatly add my thoughts to the collective unconscious, so that we may progress off of each other’s discoveries.
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