Consciousness is created from metaphiers and their paraphiers projecting paraphrands in the functional sense
The poetry of paraphiers and paraphrands is how consciousness is made. Suppose we are trying to solve a problem, And suppose we express the fact that we have obtained the solution by exclaiming that at last we âseeâ what the answer is. This metaphor may be analyzed just as a blanket of snow or the singing brook. The metaphrand is obtaining the solution, the metaphier is sight with the eyes, and the paraphiers are all those things associated with vision that then create paraphrands, such as the mindâs âeyeâ, âseeing the solution clearlyâ etc., and, most important, the paraphrand of a âspaceâ in which the âseeingâ is going on, or what I am calling mind-space, and âobjectsâ to âsee.â
Consciousness is the work of lexical metaphor. It is spun out of the concrete metaphiers of expression and their paraphiers, projecting paraphrands that exist only in the functional sense. Moreover, it goes on generating itself, each new paraphrand capable of being a metaphrand on its own, resulting in new metaphiers with their paraphiers, and so on.
Of course this process is not and cannot be as haphazard as It sounds here. The world is organized, highly organized, and the concrete metaphiers that are generating consciousness thus generate consciousness in an organized way. Hence the similarity of consciousness and the physical-behavioral world we are conscious of. And hence the structure of that world is echoedâthough with certain differencesâin the structure of consciousness.
References
- Jaynes, Julian. (1976). The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind Chapter 2 Consciousness (Epub p. 65). New York, NY:Â Houghton Mifflin Company.
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