Language and Conscious Experience
The Nature of Consciousness and Development of Language
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Consciousness is the experience of the energies detected and transduced to nerve impulse activity by sensory receptors. The commonly identified senses are sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch. Conscious experience is the detection and transduction of energies developed by intrafusal muscle spindles and enhanced by efferent impulse activity discharged from configured synaptic activity located primarily in the brain. Analogous to the detection of the environment by sensory receptors, spindle receptors detect the intrafusal muscle spindles.******. We are conscious experience. We are the energies detected and transduced by receptors. We are the experience of the detection and transduction; the experience of the energies of sight, sound, the chemical energies of taste and smell, and the energies of touch.******. The signiicant point of the theory is that the consciousenss we experience is "out there" and not in the brain. Subjective experience, perception, imagery, feelings (emotion) and the meanings of the behavior of language (behavior responsible for tthe development of energies in the intrafusal msucle spindles of vocalization) are the detection and trandsduction to nerve impulse activity of the energies developed in the intrafusal muscle spindles. ******. The sequence of activity that accommodates consciousness becomes obvious when thought of in terms of evolution. We can suppose that the first life was in simple form, response to the energies of the environment. Response required the development of the muscle system; the muscle system required control; the spindle receptors respond to the energies developed by innervation for that control. The nonconscious brain discharges efferent impulse activity from configured synaptic activity: synaptic activity configured genetically and experientially by afferent impulse activity from receptors.******. Knowledge of conscious experience can be concretized as meaning by an agreed to association with a behavior of vocalization. Knowledge is an ancillary product of conscious experience.******. Because of what amounts to a reversal of the experience of consciousness, from the brain to the environment, the general premises of neurobiology do not apply to the logic of conscious experience.******.
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Language and Conscious Experience is a philosophical theory of consciousness. The book presents a theory that accommodates every aspect of consciousness and conscious experience. The aspects referred to are perception, imagery including memory and dreams, feelings (emotion) and the acquisition and development of language including the origination of meaning. The nature of consciousness is the energies detected by sensory receptors. The nature of conscious experience is the detection by spindle receptors of energies developed and enhanced in intrafusal muscle spindles. We experience the environment in the form of sensations: sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch, to use the common and traditional identifications. Consciousness is experienced by the detection of intrafusal muscle spindles. The spindle receptor detection is analogous to the detection of the environment by sensory receptors. The difference, of course, is that we are conscious as the detection of the intrafusal spindles. The purpose of the neuromuscular system is response to the energies of the environment. The purpose of the intrafusal spindles is to control the neuromuscular system. Efferent impulse activity from synaptic activity enhances the intrafusal spindles that can then be detected as conscious experience. Energies developed in the intrafusal spindles are determined by the innervation of the system. When enhanced from configured synaptic activity the innervation is modified by the synaptic activity configured by experience.
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W.H. Sparks graduated from the University of Colorado with a Bachelor of Arts Degree. The degree included a minor in philosophy. He settled in Southern California where he continued his studies while pursuing a career in the consulting engineering field. He opened his own engineering firm in 1973 which he operated for almost 20 years. The firm was merged with a larger player in 1992. Over the years, Mr. Sparks maintained his interest in philosophical studies and particularly the field or consciousness and conscious experience. He retired in 2001 with the purpose of organizing his notes and publishing his theory on the nature of consciousness and acquisition of language. Mr. Sparks and his wife live in Rancho Palos Verdes, California.