symbolic foundation of our conscious mind

I have been discussing, with a few of my friends here in visalia, the idea of symbol and the “real world” that we live in. One might call it the symbolic foundation of our conscious mind. This is how I see it at this point.

First there is undefined spectrum of energy/matter.

When there is a life form that has evolved with the ability to recall images and a desire to convey these personal images to others, these life forms isolates a part of the undefined spectrum of energy/matter and attaches a social symbol to that selection. Since there are an infinite number of selections that can be isolated, the selections of these symbols are drived by the needs of that life form.

If all life forms become extinct, all distinctions of the spectrum of energy/matter will cease to be.

Let me give an example of a random life form. Humanity comes along and has a limited ability to perceive (energy/matter) light waves. Right there, we have an artificial limiting of the undefined spectrum of energy/matter.

(Let me insert here that the ability to recall personal images is a trained behavior and that if a human child is not trained the difference between X and Y, it (the child) will not have the ability to recall the personal images of X and Y even though it will have a stimuli repose to the difference between X and Y. We can pick this idea up in another post.)

So, one of the humans realizes that every time it (the human) eats a certain kind of flower it (the flower) makes it (the human) sick. It (the human) notices that color (light waves) being admitted by this flower is different then the color (light waves) being admitted by the other flowers and so the human creates a sound symbol “blue” which it (the human) connects to the visual stimuli of the flower. It (the human) has a hard time getting the other humans to make the connection between the stimuli and the sound symbol, but eventually every one goes around not eating the blue flowers. The section of the spectrum of light would never have been isolated into “blue” if there had not been a need for that distinction.

I am going to take a chance here and say that all energy/matter is a spectrums. That life forms are a spectrum of the combination of matter and energy. Humanity is within the same spectrum as amoebas, volcanic gases and lighting, mud, gold and any other isolated part of the energy/matter spectrum that you wish to make.

A “chair” is only one shape in the spectrum of shapes that can given an artificial boundary. There is no natural isolation of any section of any spectrum other then that which is artificially applied by a symbolic being. The distinction is artificially placed upon the spectrum by a being in the development of a symbolic language.