From Language-Game To Thought-World

Language acquisition is the doorway to a thought-world. Once inside, you can begin to understand how meaning-making is embedded in a particular culture. Meanings are not free-floating concepts but embodied thoughts subject to emotional investment. Words carry affects. Thinking is intimately inter-related to feeling. The central nervous system reacts to environmental stimuli mediated by the human body. We are not brains in vats but sensate organisms. We language our bodily impressions. The "mind-body problem" exists only for those who represent the relation of mind to body inadequately. Culture is a key component of human habitation and language is a key to culture.