0308 How disturbing is that off-hand contention?

Well, it is as disturbing as the realization that the person who applies the Heimlich maneuver harbors a commitment_2c, that is, a rationality_3(2c) that brings the universality of sensation_2(2c) into relation with the potential intelligibility of perception_1(2c).

Or should I say…?

A training_3(2c) that brings the recognition of the universal signs of choking_2(2c) into relation with a potentially intelligible course of action called “the Heimlich maneuver”_1(2c).

0309 Is that the same as an auditory hallucination_2c?

Yes, it is, to a scientific observer who figuratively stands outside the system.  Most sign-vehicles can be observed and measured.  The sign-vehicle of the interventional sign-relation (SV_i) cannot be observed and measured.

So, is the auditory hallucination a phenomenon?  Or is it a model that Jaynes places over the noumenon, the thing itself, in order to integrate the subsequent phenomena, which includes all the statements pertaining to the spouting of the brussels sprout.

0310 Even though the claim that the hero saves the day because of an auditory hallucination sounds disrespectful, at least the claim opens natural inquiry into the element of the interventional sign-relation that cannot be observed and measured, the sign-vehicle (SV_i).  An auditory hallucination_2c (SV_i) stands for all the statements about the spouting incident_2a (SO_i) in regards to a joke-filled dinner happening_3a operating on the potential of brussels sprouts as one of the dishes served_1a (SO_i).

0311 No, the lesson is not, “Do not put an entire brussels sprout in one’s mouth before laughing at a funny story.”

0312 Nor is the lesson that grandfather’s guardian angel shouted into the ear of his son-in-law, who is a fireman fully trained in life-saving techniques.

But, the latter is fairly close to what Jaynes tries to pin down with his technical vocabulary.

0313 If Jaynes’s technical term, “auditory hallucination”, corresponds to the interventional sign-vehicle (SV_i), then we may appreciate the term for what it is, a model of a sign-element that cannot be directly observed and measured, but produces phenomena that can be observed and measured, directly, as an interventional sign-object (SO_i), and indirectly, as an interventional sign-interpretant (SI_i).

0314 In the interventional sign-relation, a perspective-level actuality_2c (SV_i) stands for a content-level actuality_2a (SO_i) in regards to a content-level normal context_3a operating on its potential_1a (SI_i).

The following figure reduces the sign-relation to a correspondence, thirdness_3(2c) with thirdness_3a, secondness_2(2c) with secondness_2a, and firstness_1(2c) with firstness_1a.

Say what?

Compare commitment_2c (as a category-based nested form unfolded from judgment_2c) and the content_a-level of the scholastic interscope for how humans think.

0315 The associations are profound, because they allow the inquirer to appreciate the implicit nature of the interventional sign-relation.  If commitment_2c is present, as it always is under conditions when hominins communicate through hand-talk, then what is happening_3a is implicitly confounded with rationality_3(2c) and the potential of ‘something happening’_1a should implicitly be entangled with an intelligible perception_1(2c).  Also, the universality of the sensation_2(2c), including… dare I say… synaesthetic cross-modal mentation_2(2c)… gets rapidly decoded into a kind of impression, a species impressa_2a.

0316 What about the brain?

Julian Jaynes focuses on the Wernicke’s region in the left hemisphere, which encompasses a deep cleft that partially defines the temporal lobe, and a less anatomically well-defined mirror region in the right hemisphere.  I call these regions, “Wernicke’s on the left and on the right”.

0317 Wernicke’s region on the left is devoted to rapidly decoding both hand talk and speech talk.  The decoded meaning, presence and message provide an impression_2a (of what is happening_3a given the potential of ‘something happening’_1a).  The decoded impression_2a is integrated with sensory information and feelings that we attribute to sensation_2a (that is the dyad, {active body [substantiates] sensate soul}_2a).

Content-level elements associate to the sign-object (SO_i) and the sign-interpretant (SI_i) of the interventional sign-relation.

0318 Julian Jaynes assigns the source of “auditory hallucinations” to the Wernicke’s region on the right.  In light of this discussion, that assignment should correspond to the sign-vehicle of the interventional sign-relation (SV_i).  That SV_i is commitment_2c as the unfolding of judgment_2c.

According to the scholastic ideal, commitment_2c is a category-based nested form where the normal context of rationes_3(2c) brings the actuality of a species impressa intelligibilis_2(2c) into relation with the possibility of a species expressa intelligibilis_1(2c).

That is to say, a rational normal context_3(2c) brings the actuality of the universality of sensation_2(2c) into relation with the possibility of an intelligible perception_1(2c).

The SV_i (from the Wernicke’s region on the right) is decoded (SI_i, by Wernicke’s region on the left) into a SO_i.

0319 Here is a picture of the association.

0320 The above figure portrays a phenotype.

The above figure represents an adaptation into the human niche.

According to the masterwork, The Human Niche, by Razie Mah (available at smashwords and other e-book venues), the human niche is the potential of triadic relations.