Well, that was myopic. That's the problem with categorization. I was all "new is awesome, and it's happening all the time", and the words were all "I'm obsessed with new, go out and buy an iPad before it's passe... Oops, too late! New is king!"
There is a huge problem with language. This is all-inclusive language we're talking here, counting art, music, verbiage, hell, even the senses themselves. They lend themselves too easily to animal-brain categorization.
Now don't get me wrong, it's synaptically fantastic to think of how our senses compile themselves into a coherent image of reality. What we touch and hear is translated into what we see or smell, and vice versa, to give a concrete meaning to a word, image or event. They're all part of the same language system, like Romance Languages, and I'm tempted to posit that almost anyone can pin themselves somewhere along the spectrum of Synesthesia if they try hard enough (what color do you imagine when you smell flowers? when you taste a lemon?). Our material minds are so intra-connected that this is the basis of our entire idea of reality and life as it presents itself. It is as it presents itself to our senses.
Does anything lie beyond this? A better question for organized religion to answer, or so their proponents would claim. It's been the realm of thinkers for, like, forever. Well, actually forever, because it still is.
The thing is, it isn't a riddle to be definitively solved, but an individual question to be answered.
Do you feel what I feel, ever?
Do you think you do?
Are you me?
Don't let anyone answer your own questions for you. Or do. It's all good.
You'll keep existing, just like the rest of us.
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