On How Language Works With Perception To Construct The World We Live In

If you think of a glass, you can think think of it as an object existing independently out there in the world, and you can create representations of that object, like this:

It is quite difficult to see how language is involved in this process. See John Searle and Bryan Magee on The Philosophy of Language. But if you take a longer view and see how this particular glass was made, ...

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... or an even longer view, to see how the material was made ...

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... then it is easier to understand how language is a necessary part of the cognitive process by which something like a glass comes to exist as an independent physical object, and how much he existence of this glass in the photograph is a slice of a continuous process of things coming into being and then changing their form and then ceasing to be anymore.

At 6:57 there is a glass of water which reacts in a very interesting way:


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