Thursday, 11 April 2019

Mental Images Through Systemic Functional Linguistics

Edelman (1992: 119):
My use of the word "scene" is meant to convey the idea that responses to roughly contemporaneous events in the world are connected by a set of reentrant processes. As human beings possessing higher-order consciousness, we experience primary consciousness as a "picture" or a "mental image" of ongoing categorised events. But as we shall see when we examine higher-order consciousness, there is no actual image or sketch in the brain. The "image" is a correlation between different kinds of categorisations.

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From the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistic Theory, a 'scene' is a correlation of perceptual meanings construed of experience.  In humans, this is further correlated with linguistic meanings construed of experience.

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