Language and the symbolic self that language enables are also both complex
results of interdependent processes which have, over time, become enstructured
into enduring physiological and psychological structures.
"It is the goal of most cognitive processes," Deacon declares (456), "to make information processing unconscious and automatic�as quick, easy, and efficient as possible."
We must distinguish, therefore, between those immediate but intermittent processes of discerning cognitive awareness accompanied by attention, from the underlying but continuous processes operating automatically.
Since linguistic categories and classifications underlie all forms of cognitive awareness, subliminal as well as supraliminal, then we are susceptible to the same conceptual prolixity, the ensnaring recursivity that language entails, at unconscious levels as well. Concomitantly, our sense of self�enabled by and arising out of the reflexivity of linguistic representation�has also become enstructured so that it too occurs "unconsciously and automatically" in nearly every moment of mind.
"It is the goal of most cognitive processes," Deacon declares (456), "to make information processing unconscious and automatic�as quick, easy, and efficient as possible."
We must distinguish, therefore, between those immediate but intermittent processes of discerning cognitive awareness accompanied by attention, from the underlying but continuous processes operating automatically.
Since linguistic categories and classifications underlie all forms of cognitive awareness, subliminal as well as supraliminal, then we are susceptible to the same conceptual prolixity, the ensnaring recursivity that language entails, at unconscious levels as well. Concomitantly, our sense of self�enabled by and arising out of the reflexivity of linguistic representation�has also become enstructured so that it too occurs "unconsciously and automatically" in nearly every moment of mind.
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