So where are we going with this discussion? what do we want to bring to light or highlight with all these examples???
“Words or languages are good at conveying a broad overview of things and facts (as in numbers, figures etc...) but they fail miserably when it comes to conveying, or replicating in the minds of others, minute and precise details of PEOPLE, SITUATIONS and EXPERIENCES”.
This is what we want to highlight, the insufficiency of the language to objectively and precisely convey details in the THREE most important domains of our lives that are “PEOPLE, SITUATIONS and EXPERIENCES”. We saw very clearly in the previous example how the discussion over Mr. Albert (people) generated a myriad variety of responses due to the different environments in which they had met (situations) leading to very distinctively different experiences. The example of the Boxer breed dog highlights the fact that no matter how much ever amount of factual data is pumped into the information provided the responses generated in each and every mind are markedly different and is based on their experiences in life.
EXPERIENCE is very closely related to feelings; in fact no experience whatsoever is possible without the involvement of one or the other faculty of feeling. A very subtle understanding exists at this juncture. An experience is generated, or takes birth, beyond the social intelligence and hence is beyond language or words. It (experience) is generated via media feelings. Feelings as we would remember are defined as “an INSTANTANEOUS AWARENESS generated within our system either in response to an outer world stimulus or situation or instantaneous awareness of our inner self WITHOUT the involvement of words or language”. During the moments of its occurrence there is only feeling alone an instantaneous awareness that’s all. After the passage of the moment the recollection of what had happened, the reminiscence of the past moment and the instantaneous awareness generated by it is what we call as an EXPERIENCE. So in essence an experience is a MEMORY of a feeling.
Memory as we would remember is defined as “an “INNER WORLD REPLICA” of an outer world incident”. This is very subtle and demands keen attention. Feelings generate experience which creates a memory. So in essence something beyond words or language happens within us in our innate intelligence (feelings), which remains in a gray zone between innate and social intelligence immediately after the passing of the incident and the feeling. Later in time all these events (feelings and experiences) which occurred in the innate intelligence get transferred and recorded for the purpose of archiving and ease of retrieval (since we mostly operate from social and rarely or only accidentally from innate intelligence) into the social intelligence in the form of words. And this is that critical juncture of a very fine understanding that when an event beyond words and language gets recorded in the form of words and language discrepancies are bound to occur. This is one of the foundation stones of all our confusions, mistakes and miseries
