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Interlude LXXVI: Language | How Speech Shapes Reality, Lev Vygotsky, George Lakoff, Inner Speech, Metaphor, Framing, Consciousness, and Identity
In this interlude of The Observable Unknown, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey explores one of the most powerful forces shaping human consciousness: language.
Before a person knows what they believe, they inherit words.
Before they understand what they feel, they are given names for feeling.
Before identity becomes fully conscious, the speaking world has already begun shaping what reality means.
This episode examines how language does far more than communicate thought. Language helps form thought. It teaches the mind where to look, what to ignore, what to fear, what to desire, what to call normal, what to…
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