Some Fundamental Reflections

To me a fundamental in understanding is to try and sense what is behind an expression - what motivates it, where in our deepest selves has it originated, for what purpose?

The complexity of our minds indicate consciousness to be a mediation tool, a creator of specialist languages used to resolve issues where a habit/instinct does not work.

As such consciousness is grounded in mediation space and so relational space, a space of uncertainties, of possibilities mixed with necessities; thus all languages produced by consciousness are, upon close analysis, found to be incomplete in that completeness is where we move from the delay of mediation to the immediacy of response to a stimulus.

In learning new or complex information we can detect this delay in the new instinct/habit where the delay is indicative of the presence of consciousness mediating the learning. Once the response to the particular stimulus is refined, the delay goes away and we fall back onto the immediacy of stimulus/response.

This realm of uncertainty is a realm of vagueness, we fish around for meanings and as such this vague realm is a source of classes of meanings we then instantiate to give us the specific meaning used to represent some specific event.

If we analyse the products of neuroscience research we can identify a core set of classes of meanings shared across all neuron-dependent life forms. This set of classes of meanings appears to form the foundation for all specialist perspectives where they are abstractions developed from our concrete existance that we then metaphorise to represent 'out of context' experiences - by this I mean that the single context realm of our sensory being is limited by direct experience of reality through the limits of our sensory systems - we can only sense upto the horizon of those senses.

Through abstraction and the use of analogy/metaphor and so the realm of the figurative we can transcend our single context perspective, we can imagine the future, see into the past, or communicate the current moment but experienced from a position very different to our current physical position.

Given the work in neurosciences, how far can we go in identifying a set of basic classes of meanings in a formal manner, what methodology allows for the creation of 'universals' of meaning from the 'mindless' dynamics of the neurology?