2019-10-04
(Building on some previous thoughts of language as an organism.)
So if language is the organism, then what are it’s lifecycles. It perhaps becomes interesting to think of language or all sorts as “living”, even when it’s written on a wall. Perhaps it’s best conceived of as a dormat stage of the language organism.
So when words are written on the east wall, and words are written on the west wall, they are dormat. They are concepts and ideas that cannot combine and remix. These ideas cannot fuck. They can’t generate new ideas together, with pieces of one and pieces of another married and intertwined.
But a-ha! So here comes the human mind: the fertile replication machines of the system. It can consume and take in the dormant form of the language organism on the east wall, and the dormant form on the west, and it can bring it into a shared space that recombines and remixes, and finds the best parts of each to shape together and act.
So perhaps the human mind is better conceived as the biological replication machinery of the language organism — the mind is the fertile environment of recombination, not unlike DNA polymerase is the replication machinery of the cellular environment, or the cellular milieu. And so our minds are like the piece of the giant system moving through the terrestial milieu — through the thin skin of matter than wraps the earth and drifts with purpose within the viscosity of the atmosphere.