Thinking Outside Language...

S ymbolic language may be linear - such as words and sentences, paragraphs of prose, which are generally processed sequentially in time, or non-linear – such as pictures and sculptures, which are generally processed in parallel; although taking a small amount of time and seeming to be instantaneous, or using a physical ‘field of view’ to linearly explore the artwork…  Both forms may be subconsciously processed once absorbed…        Dualism proposes that the mind and body are separate, ye t when the body dies, the awareness disappears…  Descartes famously suggested ‘I think, therefore I am;’ but there is something much deeper than this: ‘I experience, therefore I exist…’ In this language, ‘I’ doesn’t exist in the conventional sense…       When thinking in a linear language, the framework of the world model that you have built up over your lifetime through which to interact with the world produces a single stream of conscious thought –...