How important is language?

Let's imagine for a second that we are living in the past where there was no language. How did our ancestors communicate?

They probably used symbols, signs, voice signals and made stone paintings to remind themselves of how to use the signs and symbols again or just to show what spectacular things they have seen. One thing is for sure - they have used their visual memory more than their logical mind.

Nowadays we have less developed ability to visualize our surrounding. We tend to use machine numbers which have been in our mind since the invention or discovery of numbers. Since we now have numbers, words and language in general, we can use it to minimise chunks of information into small fractions which later are used to predict the outcome of an event which helps us develop as a person in an individual mode and as a society into the grand scheme of the Universe. Since we now use numbers, our mind no longer has to remember big imagery in the form of visual representations. This use of code made imagination being possible. Because we now have a database of structures, which means that I now have every element necessary for a memory to be recreated and I don't have to visualize the whole scenario, I can imagine totally unreal scenarios and create my own reality into my mind. While in the past my mind can't just create imaginatively realities because of the importance of every detail. Since language is now invented, my mind can predict the future with a set of laws that we assume are true because we stumble upon them every now and then - for example, if I open a box and I see a cake every time like 10/10, my mind would predict that there would be a cake when I open the box for the eleventh time. I do not have to remember how the structures of tables form to know there is a table if I see the top of it I instantly assume there is one. We know how things operate normally and we predict based on these past experiences and if we come to a wrong assumption we call it "unordinary". Our mind simplifies language and we in base levels in the subconscious mind have just two numbers - 0 and 1 or on and off if you want to call them this way. Now because we have developed a structure of numbers, words, sentences and so on - we need to reverse engineer it (metaphorically) and make the structures of words be simplified with numbers like 0 and 1 so to be memorized by our subconscious mind. We work our way up so to speak with words and we know which set of numbers and words to say to form sentences because our mind is connecting every bit by something else to create materials such as the example of the table above. I don't have to always look for the legs of the table to know there is one because my memory knows how to identify it. It has made a version of it in my mind and I just simply compare it with reality. We always work on reality checks and predictions so to control our surroundings.

If something is called "crazy" by our language we mean that we do not have enough information for it to be "sane". Crazy - out of our understanding. If we switch things around and do not call things crazy but just theories, we can try and disprove the craziness and in some cases, they may be even reality. If we call something "supernatural" it basically means that is out of our understandings again. There is nothing supernatural, it is supernatural for our mind but simply everything is normal and completely natural for the laws surrounding us. We do not have a logical path into these "crazy" or "supernatural" pieces of information so we call them with those words to try and most of the time disprove them as possible which is a completely false assumption. Our current understanding is not the whole reality, language is meant to evolve and to build its way up to higher forms of understanding of the same parts of reality we now call crazy or supernatural phenomenon.

Language is meant to have connections outside of our mind. Reality and words need to find a connection between so to find truth in between them. That being said, we need to find a way to invent new words and describe the super events that we now call insane. If we continue building our way up, we open new doors to understanding and actual change in our current unpractical system. We would come to the conclusion that knowledge opens doors to more knowledge and we are just starting to actually understand the reality we are in and we can't actually say that anything is fact checked. We can't assume anything is fact because we may discover new game-breaking phenomenons or laws which completely rearrange our current understanding of the puzzle we try to build. A problem arises when we do not know how many pieces are there into this puzzle we try to build and when we don't know how long would it take - it may take us forever to truly understand reality.

To answer the question of how important is language to us, I may ask you to imagine life without words. Just a set of a wordless TV movie which all of the people are acting with their body. Ask yourself, would you understand a thing? Yes, you will, but because of the language, you translate these body movements into words. So ask yourself if there was no language would I even have the opportunity to watch movies without it or would I ever understand it? I think not! Language is everything and is the key to full control. It may not grant us full memorising of the events because the language makes elements into small fractions and we cant visualize our past as good as with our visual memory but language can open doors to developing beyond the limits of the time-space continuum. And as always, thank you for reading! Have a great day!