The Case Against Noam Chomsky -
Mental Processing

There is a continuity of expressions and interpretations from primordial biological phenomena to phenomena of social life. Human cognition represents reflections of biological mental processing of environmental stimuli that cumulate in feelings. In speech and by other means of verbal behavior humans express an interpretation of feelings. The exchange of expressions and interpretations in human communication cumulates to social practices, human cultures, of which the social practice of verbal behavior (speaking), or language practices, is the supreme manifestation. The continuum of expressions and interpretations on an evolutionary scale and in the various acts of human life displays a gradually increasing level of cognitive appraisal based on mentally conceptualized experience as a function of increasingly complex and sophisticated mental processes. The ability to mentally process complex cognitive feelings corresponds with the ability to express these feelings in a more sophisticated fashion, speech and the corresponding cognitive abilities representing the evolutionary culmination of these processes. The continuum of expressions and interpretations remains connected by the biological ability to speak and the social practice of speaking (verbal behavior), i.e., language which feeds the body/brain with the external stimuli that it processes.