Alternity, Acquisition, Invariance

Michael L. Johnson
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Michael L. Johnson: University of Kansas

Chapter 7 in Mind, Language, Machine, 1988, pp 31-35 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract I wonder if that aphasic moment when a word evades me is not suggestive of how a nonverbal animal engages the universe. But then when the word ‘comes to mind’, it has already reconstructed and particularized consciousness. It has the power to revise reality or even to generate alternate realities: fantasies, myths, lies. With the word forgotten or never learned, the universe must be taken nakedly, without the shaping gloss. For man the aphasic moment is a moment of irritation and dislocation, perhaps even panic or mental evacuation, or perhaps — if experienced religiously — of Buddhistic enlightenment.

Keywords: Mental Lexicon; Innate Structure; Semantic Operation; Vocal Apparatus; Universal Order (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1988
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-19404-9_7

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