A First Look at Julian Jaynes’s Book (1976) “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind” (Part 17 of 21)

0463 Oh, there is another resonance.

Commitment2c is SVi.  Species impressa2a is SOi.

Commitment2c is a nested form because it2c is the unfolding of judgment2c.

I wonder whether the most nested element in species impressa2a can be depicted as a category-based nested form, just like commitment2c.

Yeah, what if decode2a can be conjured as a nested form?

Well, I already performed a similar operation in points 0395 to 0399.

So, why not?

0464 What would be a normal context3 for decode2a?

May I use the term, “sensation2a“?

Then, sensation3(2a) would tend to be exclusive, as well as actual.

0465 Does that make sense3c?

A sensation3(2a) may be depicted as the hylomorphe, active body [substantiates] sensate soul2a.

To me, it seems that this actuality2a may exclude other actualities, based one’s training2c, that is, commitment2c.

Exclusion characterizes one of the logics of thirdness.

So, there is something like a normal context3 and a potential1 in decode2a, even though decode2a belongs to the category of secondness.

0465 What is the actuality2 for decode2a?

The logic of secondness includes the law of noncontradiction.

One way to express the realm of actuality is a hylomorphe, a relational structure containing two contiguous real elements.  The contiguity is [decode].  The first real element, which would correspond to matter in Aristotle’s hylomorphe, is species impressa intelligibilis2(2c), that is, the universality of sensation2(2c). The second real element, corresponding to form in Aristotle’s hylomorphe, is species impressa2(2a), the impression itself.

Decode2a not only labels the actuality2a, but [decode] also labels the contiguity between the perspective and content level actualities.

“Impression2a” not only labels the actuality2a, but the term represents the form2(2a) within species impressa2a.

“Sensation2a” not only labels the actuality2a, but the term denotes a normal context3(2a) operating on the possibility of an intelligibility to the construction of a perception1(2a).

0466 Here is a picture as how that looks.

0467 What is the potential1 for decode2a?

Well, the species impressa2a is directly situated by the imaginaton1b (otherwise labeled, “the potential of situating content1b“) and virtually situated by the phantasm2b (also labeled, “perception2b“).

0468 The phantasm2b answers the question, “What does this2a mean to me?”2b, while addressing the potential of my imagination1b.  So does perception2b.

Why use different terms for the same element in the interscope?

0469 Does “phantasm2b” go with the bicameral mind?

Does “perception2b” associate to subjective consciousness?

Yeah, it seems so.

Phantasm2b is not subject to introspection.

Perception2b is.

0470 Plus, those arrows must be neuronal fibers connecting the right and left Wernicke regions.

The form2(2a) in the actuality of decode2a, the species impressa2(2a) (a term now twice baked) is substantiated by matter, the universality of species impressa2(2c), projected from the perspective to the content level. 

0471 The potential1 for decode2a anticipates the intelligibility of the current species expressa1(2c) in two ways. Directly, the situation-level phantasm2b will answer to the question, “What does this mean to me?”3b, and virtually, the phantasm2b will be judged by the question, “Does this make sense?”3c.

A phantasm2b virtually situates sensation2a, impression2a and decode2a.

0472 The following figure pertains to hand-speech talk as two independent modes of talking.

The figure also places Wernicke’s region on the right at the bottom and Wernicke’s region on the left at the top.

0473 This portrayal describes the human SVi(SOi) for the Lebenswelt that we evolved in, prior to the first singularity.

0474 It also reminds me of a scenario portrayed in Looking at N.J. Enfield’s Book (2022) “Language vs. Reality“, appearing in Razie Mah’s blog for October 2024, as well as in Part III of Original Sin and the Post Truth Condition(available at smashwords and other e-book venues).

The scene is a team in Europe around 20kyr, hunting deer by driving them over a cliff.  It is three moons since the solstice.  A team member notices a particular type of cloud that signifies the coming of the first autumn cold front.  The first cold front is a big deal during glacial maximum.  The team does not want to be trapped, away from the community, and buried in snow.

0475 I, the team leader (so to speak), can see that my team wants to take the deer that we harvested so far and get out of there.  They tell me to ask the lion-man.  I always take the lion-man with me for moments like this.  Carved from mammoth ivory, the head of the lion adorns the body of a human.  The artifact is small enough to carry, along with my weapons, on team adventures.

Every member of the team watches me look into the face of the lion-man.

The lion-man speaks for himself.  He also speaks because he cannot hand-talk.

0476 We all bet on the intelligibility2c of my perception2b of what lion-may says2a.

Hand-speech talk is marvelous.  The hand-talk component is grounded in icons and indexes, the most natural of natural sign-relations.  The speech-talk component paints with symbols, the most conventional of natural sign-relations.  Hand-speech talk is decoded2a into a species impressa2a. So is the voice of the lion-man..

0477 I hear what the lion-man says.

Then, I look up at my team, knowing that they will follow what lion-man says.

I gesture, [image WRAP][image DEER ASLEEP][circle point to all in team][point to direction of community].

Gather the meat that we have and let’s go home.