7 - Integrating language organization in mind and brain: the world of thinking and knowing, liking or hating other mind/brain/bodies

Summary

The integrated mind/brain/body: a new version of pushing “the world” into the mind/brain/body of a person

The previous chapter finished by emphasizing the importance of archetypes, mentioning also that Langacker’s dominant archetypes belong to the range of objective events. He acknowledged that archetypes in the range of emotions, feelings and self-experience and of other self-experience would transcend his collection of externally observable and objectively analysable facts. In this limited framework important aspects of internal human experience are excluded.

Jackendoff presents a number of arguments for a fundamental extension in which language, thought, perceived things and events in the world are organized in our mind/brain/bodies (Jackendoff 2002, p. 272–273, 305–306). The available structures of the world do not exist independently of our mind/brain/body’s organization generated in mutual cooperation and communication among social groups of people. This is even true for science; theories and measurement techniques are invented, developed, applied and checked in scientific communities. Though there is continuous search for progress, scientific knowledge also is never completed. I agree with Jackendoff that in view of extending our perspective we must go deeper into psychology and neuropsychology of neural assemblies for storing and processing conceptual structures in terms of neural assemblies. They interact with other organization systems, thus generating the interplay and integration of perception, action, attention, selectivity, emotions, feelings and self-awareness and mentalizing the psychology and functional neuropsychology of others. The complete system is in continuous mental and communicative contact with the normal community.