Edelman (1992: 150-1):
"Objective" science and language both depend on the metastability or constancy of objects in the physical world. The consciousness theory assumes that physics and evolution, supplemented by the assumptions of the TNGS, are sufficient to construct a science of mind. No scientific theory of a single actual mind is possible, however, any more than a scientific account of all historical events in the world is possible.
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From the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistic Theory, 'objects in the physical world' are construals of experience as perceptual meaning, which in humans, is correlated with the meaning of language, the content of higher-order consciousness. By the same token, the meanings of the field of science are reconstruals of the meanings of language.
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