1α. The labyrinth through words

Language serves the necessity of communication among humans. Words are imprinted since the first months of life of the newborns and are subsequently used to express emotions and thoughts. By doing so, the elaboration of images projected from inside and outside the body, thus thinking, becomes gradually entrapped and expressed solely with words, so that objects, thoughts and feelings (although perceived) demand words not only to be communicated to others but also to be understood (conceived) by the individual itself. Words are taught and learned through years, but their meaning remains a strictly personal and temporal matter.  With the same word we describe ideas and feelings that largely differ among individuals, but these also keep changing through the course of life of the same individual. This poses a major problem in the communication with other people, as each word is understood (intellectually and emotionally) according to the experience and the uniqueness of the subject. Understanding a word is a personal matter, the same way that colors and music are eventually differently perceived among subjects, a fact proved by the divergence of preferences.

This personalized perception of the words, defines the elaboration of concepts and ideas during the process of thinking. We can think only through words, despite the fact that the conception of the ‘basic’ words is founded on images (perceived by the sensory organs) and feelings (emotional responses). The production of ideas and new concepts through thinking, by using the individual perception of words, introduces us in the labyrinth of the individual way of thinking, feeling and perceiving, which is impossible to be revealed to another individual, despite the usage of the same words. In fact, words just struggle to express what is felt and conceived without words by the individual, so that language remains just an attempt to exteriorize an un-worded substance [1].  The target individual will try to understand by tuning his own labyrinth to the one of the speaking individual, taking as grounded the incompatibility. The words of a sentence will be conceived according to the state of the individual labyrinth of thinking. Through this, partial still heavy, autism the communication achieved is fractional and doubtful [2].

Furthermore, the in-mind world built over the years by each human being, is based on the individual perception of words (an indispensable process activated to describe images and feeling) and thus biased compared to an ‘objective perception’, which although described in dictionaries, remains by large elusive. The original meaning should be sought to the creature who invented the word, but such a creature doesn’t exist as the word is a cultural invention, subject to continuous transformation.

On the other hand, the same word describes different feelings and emotions that, although resembling, can be extremely different. The evolution of the society insistently demands the invention of new words for objects and feelings, a process often served by already existing words.  Using a word, for convenience, as substitute of a not-yet realized sub-word, we build a labyrinth with dead-ends and loops that keeps us away from producing a clear construct, an easily manageable labyrinth. Distorted emotions and misguided conclusions haunt our lives and, extrapolating such effect to the society, define the history of the human world [3].   To break a labyrinth, constructed over years, seems an impossible task,  but we can simplify its lanes by breaking the words to sub-words that produce different feelings and images, bringing a clearer  order that re-moulds  the perception of the world and adjusts and purifies our emotions [4]  [5].