What is the exact need to speak? May be; this is not the appropriate question. It seems; the more precise and grassroots inquisition is – What is the core energy behind this seemingly innately powerful instinct to Express? The language; the speech part of communicational spectrum comes later. Expression is seed-situation; it precedes learning. It is universal to living world itself. Vocalization among animals and speech among humans add up as tools for expressions.
In scientific expression of Reality, every living being is a Media and it is essentially a processing mechanism of Information. Everything in this cosmos is information and the Media of human body-brain is also processing information to perceive Reality in all its multidimensionality. This Media therefore, very innately expresses itself and this expression, in its totality, entirety and holism is known as Intentionality. Language in itself is just a designed media of expression of intentionality. Expression is also a multidimensional reality; happening beyond languages.
It seems a reasonably safe hypothesis to state that expression has two broad dimensions. The very situation of these dimensions somehow changes the popular meaning of Expression, as it is usually accepted. First aspect of expression is associated with Intentionality. Science tells us that Intentionality happens even at cellular level and it is expressed chemically for internal consumption only. It means, even a single cell living organism has intention to do or not to do something and it expresses this intention for action or non-action through chemical processes. This intentionality process is very much there in all living organisms, including humans. This expression doesn’t need language and speech. It is neuro-chemical.
Second dimension of expression also seems to be the extension of the first dimension of expression. However, its domain of activism is not within the organism but outside in the physical milieus. This aspect of expression has to journey outside the body of living organisms and therefore, requires a vehicle of vocalization, which finally evolves into a speech pattern. The external expressions are however not restricted to vocalization-speech. Many living organisms use different body signals and movements to express and communicate. Science has deciphered how a bee communicates through flipping of its wings. Science has also unraveled how this ‘flipping’ communicates information in proteins and in almost all sub-particles.
As first dimension of expression inside body is about the innate and universal intentionality of survival of the organism; the second dimension outside body actually extends this intentionality into the wider, diverse and complex domain of external physical milieus, where an organism lives out and survives in competitiveness with other organisms. It is pertinent to realize that both dimensions of expressions are energized by stimulus, or what we may call Information, from external milieus. The first optimizes organism’s readiness as a biological being and second does the same as social being. Both aim optimization of the primary and universal Intentionality of survival wellness.
If this hypothesis is accepted as true; we can define expression as part of the transcendental need of survival and therefore; speaking and linguistic communication is also essentially an artistry to optimize this intentionality of survival wellness. In crude and simplified term; we all need to speak because we have to ensure our survival.
This very hypothesis is a revolting idea to accept. How stupid to say and admit that every day, zillions of words are spoken, billions of words are written as 7.5 billion humans carry their life-living in this huge world, just to survive? Beautiful poetry are written, marvelous books are composed, millions say ‘I love you’ to others and great visions of humanity are shared through speeches, are all nothing but survival optionlessness?
Yes! This is the marvel and magical mysticism of life-living, as it juxtaposes itself in front of the colossal cosmos of Reality. The reality is humungous; the life or self of a personhood is massively complex and the interactional spectrum between Self and Reality is hugely expansive. This means, every reality is multidimensional and it is manifested in different perceptional shapes and sensibility. It is only very natural that they all breed loads of confusion, conflict and chaos in perceptional fields of humanity. Larger the system; more is its propensity for entropy.
It may seem a rather outlandish hypothesis to relate expressional universe with a rather animalistic and basal reality of survival. However, when we see and accept that as the core reality of expression has, over millions of years, evolved its multidimensionality in human world; so has the idea and perceptions of survival. It is mesmerizing, how the very entrenched, organismic and singularly cellular Intentionality of survival has evolved over billions of years to spread its expressions into almost every speck of reality. It is tough and requires a non-intuitive and non-reactionary perceptional state of a person’s consciousness to decipher, how saying ‘I Love You’ is very much an expression of the singular, cardinal and universal Intentionality of Survival. This dualism and conflation of realities at micro and macro levels is not easy to be understood.
If we try to understand the feel and perception of this dualism and difference in perceptions about realities in different dimensions; we have a very interesting and universal example of our food culture. Nobody has the exact idea but it is assumed that globally, people eat billions of varieties of food, organized as what we know as recipes. They are all combinations of proteins, carbohydrate, fat and minerals but different people have segregated recipe choices to eat them as their favorite food. Ask them and majority of people would say; they eat their food as they enjoy eating. Nobody tells you that they eat so that every single cell out of the 30 trillion cells; their body-brain is made of; gets the nutrition to survive. Interestingly, the food we eat, in whatever form of a recipe, out of the billions available globally; is meant for survival and cellular consumption, but they are not taken the way they are cooked by our cells, which essentially use all the food energy to survive. The food we eat is broken down into smaller molecules by gut bacteria and enzymes and they finally are used as ATP at cellular level. This ATP is the true and real food for survival. However, it is marvelous to see and wonder how billions of different expressions this food takes in different cultures. Probably, nobody ever thinks of this cellular reality, when he or she is having his or her food. This is what we called the marvel and magical mysticism of life-living, as it juxtaposes itself in front of the colossal cosmos of Reality.
You may wonder; may be, it is true but why we are talking about all these? I wish to say it with all humility and sincerity at my behest that I am talking about how since almost 3000 years, humanity understood this dualism and confusion about how reality is perceptioned in human mind consciousness but still, mass majority of people do not ever take conscious cognizance of this situation in their life-living. They do not take into account how realities are expressed in myriads of ways and the collective failure of humanity to understand and accept them breed unimaginably huge and calamitous pathologies in human societies and personal life-living. This hypothesis needs to be expanded and understood in totality, entirety and holism. We talk about them in this eBook as and when it is occasioned.
We discussed this all primarily to understand and accept a hypothesis that Reality is multidimensional and it manifests at different levels and domains. One reality has many manifestations. For an average human being, his or her innate perceptional capabilities may be good enough to see, visualize and understand one dimension or manifestation of a reality. Still, some other dimensions and manifestations remain unobserved and unknown as they are beyond intuitive perception. This somehow broadly distinguishes the role and purpose of Intellect and Intelligence. In broad understanding, Intelligence is the mental and perceptional ability to understand and internalize what is available to every human being as part of the innate and intuitive learning. Intellect however is the non-intuitive mental-perceptional capabilities and eligibilities to decipher other dimensions of reality, which cannot be directly or intuitively observed and known. This has to be kept in mind as we proceed with this eBook. Thanks.
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