The minds of animals establish the thinking capability by recording and storing images created by their senses. The mind then retrieves images similar to the ones it is currently sensing to help in determining what it should now do. The human mind has an advanced storage and retrieval ability to create words and connecting those created words to a particular sense image. The word creation process includes storing the logic of the meaning of an abstract use of the word. When a word is retrieved its meaning comes with it. In addition the human mind can create words and assign them to collections of previously defined words where the collection is a thought-idea. A complex word is created by assigning it to a collection of words which is itself a collection of words. Thus we can say something like "ontogeny replays phylogeny" and instantly know what that means. In fact we can retrieve a moving picture of the visual images that define our view of the steps of development of the human birth process and likewise with phylogeny.
A mind uses large amounts of brain energy doing the job of image retrieval. A much smaller amount of energy is required to retrieve a word and have its meaning logged into our thinking brain. We have all experienced the feeling of being brain dead after a long effort of concentrated thinking. The thinking process is very limited in what it can accomplish without using energy efficient words. This is why other animals are limited in the level of reasoning they can achieve. The word vocabulary of animals is extremely limited if it has one.
It is useful to note that our human ancestors gained the high energy required use of words by an advance in their eating habits. They began to eat meat. This high energy creating new diet allowed for a new feature for our brains. The brain, sensing this new addition of extra energy, and put it to good use by developing features that enhanced our minds ability to reason thus increasing survivability.
Word use in America
The intelligence level of a mind is measured by how quickly it can apply logic to its private vocabulary of words. Information and knowledge are defined by words. Thus we can say "Wisdom is derived by applying logic to valid, relevant information and knowledge". Facts are information or knowledge that are true. Thus we can also say "Common sense is derived by applying simple logic to relevant and well known facts." Wisdom and common sense are two important items a mind needs for the well-being and survival of itself and its loved ones.
Wisdom and common sense are in big trouble here in America. Words are to often misused, deliberately in propaganda. In addition there are many disagreements about the meaning of some words. These facts lead to false communication of ideas where speaker-writer has a different definition than the listener-reader.
Another case where word misuse leads to false logic is where a modern definition of a word is used to interpret what our Constitution requires or prohibits. This escapes condemnation because the Constitution does not have a glossary that defines the meaning of key words and phases at the time of creation. Specific examples of this have occurred with interpretations of the first amendment to the Constitution.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion..." has a phrase "establishment of religion"
that needs to have a definition for its meaning at the time of writing. The complete meaning of what establishment meant then is defined by
"They also made the Church of England the official church in Virginia, so that all property owners in the colony had to pay taxes to support its ministers."
The destroyers of our Constitution have introduced a phrase of infinite meanings to rewrite our Constitution without amendment. -Thomas Jefferson, letter to Danbury Baptist Association, CT., Jan. 1, 1802 "Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between church and State." This "wall of separation...." metaphorical phrase from a private letter has been used by the ACLU and secular judges to cause unjust changes in America by clear violation of what "establishment of religion" meant when written.
Another specific example, again from the first amendment.
"Congress shall make no law respecting.....; or abridging the freedom of speech,...."
Here the word needing a definition for its time is "speech". First note that the 1st Amendment, at its inception, was NOT a defense for; slander, libel nor contempt of court speech. What the people where demanding was protection against prosecution for political and blasphemous speech. Examination of the events and writings of the time make this claim valid. Speaking about politics and speaking against sacred things was to be permitted without interference by legal authority. Performances of burning of our national flag and exhibiting an excrement laden blasphemous creation are not speeches. They do not deserve protection by our Constitution because of designed word misuse.
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