Time-Unrelated Regions

Abstract

At this point the question is not that as to the existence of a phase space consisting of ideas and concepts but rather about its structure and rationale. In approaching the core of the problem, however, one immediately becomes aware of the hidden question concerning another entity also to be accounted for, i.e., language. The nature, structure, and rationale of abstract phase space compell us to wonder about the way in which the relationships among the ideas and concepts constituting it are expressed. The term “express” is certainly misleading in this context because it conveys the notion of language in the way in which we are accustumed to conceiving it, i.e., as consisting of words organized into sentences. However, the essence of language in phase space lies in the links between ideas, that is, their essential relationships, not between the words used for expressing thoughts. While these links in everyday language used in thinking, talking, and writing are themselves symbolized in words, in abstract phase space they are only inherent in that which keeps the elements of phase space congruent and coherent among themselves, i.e., in the logic linking the abstractions to one another. This logic is the true origin of language and thus of the eidetic function which, from this point of view, is the same thing as the former. However, if the properties of abstract phase space are those proposed in Chap. 9, with properties different from those of the physical phase space (as embodied in brain space-time matter), then the language in the two spaces must also be different. In other words, the logic of the two spaces, although representing the principles of congruence-coherence linking their respective elements, must differ because the structure and the rationale of the two spaces are different.