Symbolscape on Nostr: We can't get outside of language. The world as we know it is constructed by the logic ...

We can't get outside of language. The world as we know it is constructed by the logic of signification. Even our perception of the natural world itself only works in relation to our consciousness through the logic metaphor—this tree and that rock only have meaning in the world insofar as we "represent" their existence in cognition. Our minds form an abstraction of the world itself, and our capacity to negotiate the outside world is always already a projection of our consciousness and its internal logic.

The key to world building is recognizing this formative function of language, and to understand that every individual deploys the existing matrix in some way to shape their sense of themselves: their "identity."