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0308 How disturbing is that off-hand contention?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, it is as disturbing as the realization that the person who applies the Heimlich maneuver harbors a commitment2c<\/sub>, that is, a rationality3(2c)<\/sub> that brings the universality of sensation2(2c)<\/sub> into relation with the potential intelligibility of perception1(2c)<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or should I say…?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A training3(2c)<\/sub> that brings the recognition of the universal signs of choking2(2c)<\/sub> into relation with a potentially intelligible course of action called “the Heimlich maneuver”1(2c)<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0309 Is that the same as an auditory hallucination2c<\/sub>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, it is, to a scientific observer who figuratively stands outside the system<\/em>.  Most sign-vehicles can be observed and measured.  The sign-vehicle of the interventional sign-relation<\/em> (SVi<\/sub>) cannot be observed and measured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

0310 Even though the claim that the hero saves the day because of an auditory hallucination<\/em> sounds disrespectful, at least the claim<\/em> opens natural inquiry<\/em> into the element of the interventional sign-relation that cannot be observed and measured, the sign-vehicle<\/em> (SVi<\/sub>).  An auditory hallucination2c<\/sub> (SVi<\/sub>) stands for all the statements about the spouting incident2a<\/sub><\/em> (SOi<\/sub>) in regards to a joke-filled dinner happening3a<\/sub><\/em> operating on the potential of brussels sprouts as one of the dishes served1a<\/sub><\/em> (SOi<\/sub>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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

But, the latter is fairly close to what Jaynes tries to pin down with his technical vocabulary<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0313 If Jaynes’s technical term, “auditory hallucination”, corresponds to the interventional sign-vehicle (SVi<\/sub>),<\/em> then we may appreciate the term<\/em> for what it is,<\/em> a model of a sign-element that cannot be directly observed and measured, <\/em>but produces phenomena that can be observed and measured, directly, as an interventional sign-object (SOi<\/sub>), and indirectly, as an interventional sign-interpretant (SIi<\/sub>).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

0314 In the interventional sign-relation, a perspective-level actuality2c<\/sub> (SVi<\/sub>) stands for a content-level actuality2a<\/sub> (SOi<\/sub>) in regards to a content-level normal context3a<\/sub> operating on its potential1a<\/sub> (SIi<\/sub>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The following figure reduces the sign-relation to a correspondence, thirdness3(2c)<\/sub> with thirdness3a<\/sub>, secondness2(2c)<\/sub> with secondness2a<\/sub>, and firstness1(2c)<\/sub> with firstness1a<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Say what?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Compare commitment2c<\/sub> (as a category-based nested form<\/em> unfolded from judgment2c<\/sub>) and the contenta<\/sub>-level of the scholastic interscope for how humans think<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

0315 The associations are profound, because they allow the inquirer to appreciate the implicit nature of the interventional sign-relation<\/em>.  If commitment2c<\/sub> is present, as it always is under conditions when hominins communicate through hand-talk, then what is happening3a<\/sub><\/em> is implicitly confounded with rationality3(2c)<\/sub><\/em> and the potential of ‘something happening’1a<\/sub><\/em> should implicitly be entangled with an intelligible perception1(2c)<\/sub><\/em>.  Also, the universality of the sensation2(2c)<\/sub>, including… dare I say… synaesthetic cross-modal mentation2(2c)<\/sub>… gets rapidly decoded into a kind of impression, a species impressa2a<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0316 What about the brain?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

0317 Wernicke’s region on the left<\/em> is devoted to rapidly decoding both hand talk and speech talk.  The decoded meaning, presence and message<\/em> provide an impression2a<\/sub><\/em> (of what is happening3a<\/sub><\/em> given the potential of ‘something happening’1a<\/sub>).<\/em>  The decoded impression2a<\/sub><\/em> <\/sub>is integrated with sensory information<\/em> and feelings that we attribute to sensation2a<\/sub><\/em> (that is the dyad, {active body [substantiates] sensate soul}2a<\/sub>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Content-level elements<\/em> associate to the sign-object<\/em> (SOi<\/sub>) and<\/em> the sign-interpretant<\/em> (SIi<\/sub>) of the interventional sign-relation<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0318 Julian Jaynes assigns the source of “auditory hallucinations” to the Wernicke’s region on the right.<\/em>  In light of this discussion, that assignment should correspond to the sign-vehicle<\/em> of the interventional sign-relation<\/em> (SVi<\/sub>).  That SVi<\/sub> is commitment2c<\/sub> as the unfolding of judgment2c<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the scholastic ideal, commitment2c<\/sub> is a category-based nested form<\/em> where the normal context of rationes3(2c)<\/sub><\/em> brings the actuality of a species impressa intelligibilis2(2c)<\/sub><\/em> into relation with the possibility of a species expressa intelligibilis1(2c)<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That is to say, a rational normal context3(2c<\/sub><\/em>)<\/sub> brings the actuality of the universality of sensation2(2c)<\/sub><\/em> into relation with the possibility of an intelligible perception1(2c)<\/sub>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The SVi<\/sub> (from the Wernicke’s region on the right) is decoded (SIi<\/sub>, by Wernicke’s region on the left) into a SOi<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0319 Here is a picture of the association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

0320 The above figure<\/em> portrays a phenotype<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The above figure<\/em>\u00a0represents\u00a0an adaptation into the human niche<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the masterwork,\u00a0The Human Niche,<\/em>\u00a0by Razie Mah (available at smashwords and other e-book venues),\u00a0the human niche<\/em>\u00a0is\u00a0the potential of triadic relations<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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