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Language is interpretation of feelings

I claim that language fundamentally is about interpretation of feelings. Building on Antonio Damasio�s presentation I place language after emotions and feelings at the top of the development of the human biological homeostatic system. With language the human strives to give expression to infinite needs to interpret feelings. Language is hence an interpretation of feelings, and as an interpretation there is nothing firmly given about it; the words of language have developed arbitrary to express the feelings; in a historic process words once used form a platform for future use, but in the historic process language develops randomly, but always building on previous use, on the social practices that language captures. All science builds on the wrong idea that knowledge can be expressed in an exact manner in language. Too many even think that there are some truths to be found in language, but the truth is in the feelings, and language is only the tool for expressing the feelings, or more correctly: giving expression to the interpretation of the feelings, and that is an infinite endeavor, a never-ending story.

Language is what sets apart humans from animals � in good and bad.

Language itself is the purest competitive system of all � in fact all forms of life are but mere perceptions on the practice of language from a certain point of view. The unity of manifold, is not a physical unity, it is rather the holistic web of perceptions that reduce all aspects of human life to language, to words, to aspects of feelings, to the binary mode of pain and pleasure.

One has to move beyond language to see that the philosophical problems disappear � and beyond language we have feelings. Scientifically feelings are connected with psychological, and biological problems, or whatever we want to call them, but certainly not philosophical ones.

Language only delivers the expressions of feelings, the expressions of the interpretations of them; language creates the different perceptions on life that affect feelings, and the feelings that affect perceptions on life; understanding this we should now be able to realize that the �true workings of language� consists of interpretations of feelings, and hereby there are no intrinsic rules or anything of the kind we could refer to or that would guide the process, there is but an endless competition between all the infinite variances of perceptions that people form under the influence of feelings. With language we can only roll from one interpretation to another, and there are no truths to be reached on the road; instead it is better to see language as a method. It is basically a market method or a competitive method, an open system where all language use affects all other use. Therefore in proper philosophy there are no rules, no laws that we could discover and explain, and thus all that we can do in terms of philosophy is merely point out when words are arranged so that nonsense follows and confusion reigns.

The expressions of language are developed from people�s experience. Language depicts first and foremost what people have seen. The most basic words and expressions stem from the most elementary forms of life, the life connected with the physical nature, the thingly nature. Languages have not developed much past a description of the basic experiences of life. We are trying to express, and we have a need to express, complex, delicate feelings with a language that merely fits for describing the world of things. The usage of the thingly concepts for describing feelings is what sets up traps in language. - In communication this fallacy has resulted in a disastrous failure - Meaning has been turned upside down: Protection has been converted to hatred; love to possession; faith to repression, knowledge to superstition; personality to exclusion; you to many; I to we; care to distance� Whoever conceived the story of Adam and Eve eating from the tree of wisdom and being expulsed from the paradise captured a very relevant notion. This is the insight on how language �for the fruit of knowledge is language - when misused, out of context, becomes a corrupting force, the arch reason for misery � the tool for intrigues; conceits; superstition; deception; fraud, mass-hatred; war. By combining words in a cunning way the bad have captured power from the innocent; and they have privatized natural needs for explanations of eternity, the world and the skies under own private label religions.

Language is hence all there is to philosophy. Elements that have earlier produced a lot of philosophical nut cracking simply disappear. We will see that metaphysics and the game of formal logic turn out to be antiquated activities similar to alchemy � that is to say all of metaphysics save the part of which deals with the beginning of life, which is better to be left to the realm of religion




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