Why is there no a matter without a word?

The difference between people and animals is especially evident in the communication of both. In particular, even the most highly developed animals do not own the word, replacing it in communication with gestures and inarticulate sounds. Therefore, it makes sense to find out why and how gestures and sounds, which are the only means of communication for animals, were supplemented by words and meaningful coherent speech, and later by writing, and what role does the image and collective labor play here?

Keywords: information, animals, people, relationships, communication, word, speech, deed, written language, consciousness, self-consciousness.

In order to find out why and how gestures and sounds, which sometimes also acquire symbolic meaning, which are used by animals as means of communication, were supplemented by words and meaningful coherent speech, it is necessary, apparently, to first turn to animals, the most advanced of which, in terms of intelligence and communication, are chimpanzees.
People, and it is hardly worth arguing with this, are the heirs of primates.
Therefore, like primates, they strive for food, their own reproduction, improvement of their position among their relatives and comfort, using such basic properties of their individuality, developed over millions of years of evolution, as quick-wittedness, sensitivity, impressionability, decisiveness, one or another degree of sociability, the ability to pry, dominance, perseverance, cooperation in actions, which in their totality, level and relationships constitute the individuality of the animal part of consciousness together with its acquired or genetic characteristics - such as appearance, temperament, adding only to them life experience, skills, behavior acquired in their niche of existence.
More details about the individuality that characterizes animals, and the personality together with the individuality that determine a human behavior, and about the basis of these properties can be found in my essay “Why and how do personality and individuality compete in a person?” (Monograph “About the origin and manifestation of personality.” Chapter 1. 2024. Amazon. Yury Nizovtsev).
For primates in their extended-spatial adaptive world, since time is not perceived by them due to the focus of their imagination on the specific objects surrounding them, and they themselves feel themselves and sense their own environment as objects without including any form of generalization or abstraction. The conceptual world for them is replaced by a set of sensations that they do not want to lose, since they understand from the example of their own sleep what hopeless emptiness is.
They spend their days, with rare exceptions, extremely monotonously: they eat, play, have sex and, on occasion, try to take a higher, and therefore pleasant in terms of sensations, place in the pack.
For these activities, it is enough to have the instincts and reflexes, as well as acquired skills, and no special reflection is required with such daily repetition, in essence, of what has already taken place, with an extremely small number of changes and a practical absence of collective labor.
This kind of sluggish accommodative existence in an almost unchanging extended jungle spatial environment
To this kind of sluggish adaptive existence in an almost unchanged extended spatial environment of jungle for tens of millions of years should correspond, and, in fact, correspond, to fairly primitive and few means of communication.
Chimpanzees use vocal communication, first of all, as a signal about the presence of potential threats.
Similar information is expressed in the form of growling, squealing, screaming, but these monkeys are not capable of making articulate sounds.
A total of 12 sound combinations were identified. In particular, the chimpanzees made a single grunt when they saw food, and a series of grunts - as a sign of submissive greeting, noting their lower social status.
However, for a targeted message, chimpanzees use mainly gestures rather than sounds, urging themselves to certain actions and even conducting a dialogue. Only 66 gestures are enough for monkeys to send 19 different information signals.
Nevertheless, a variety of sounds and gestures are used by monkeys mainly for communication, and not for coordinating joint actions, which indicates their egocentrism and a slight interest in cooperation, which is needed to facilitate labor and increase its effectiveness, which is not at all required for these loafers, for whose life there are enough inarticulate sounds and several dozen gestures.
The immutability of this kind of the primate communication for tens of millions of years is perhaps the most convincing evidence that they are fully satisfied with their own adaptive existence in an extended space in which little changes.
That is, in their minds there is no understanding of their own presence in the current time, which is not required in the world of, as a rule, daily repetition of self-service activities, whereas understanding of the presence in time encourages to observe of changes in their own surrounding and, accordingly, - to think about adapting these changes, which can be initiated by themselves, to their own needs, as opposed to simply adapting to what is without much thought.
Interestingly, nature, in fact, did not go beyond primates during evolution, representing the ultimate, most highly organized version of the evolutionary development of living beings within the framework of the adaptation to the environment, which is useless to improve further, which shows the invariability of the primate organism and their behavior for tens of millions of years.
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Nevertheless, the rather meaningless, more precisely, pleasantly thoughtless adaptive existence of hefty primates, who actually have no enemies in the thick jungle, still turned out to be surmountable, but not only purely natural forces.
This being, of course, did not leave the adaptive tactics in vain, but began to increasingly use the strategy and tactics of implementing changes through its own collective efforts around itself, having relatively quickly achieved a lot not only around itself, but also in its own organism, having increased, in particular, its ingenuity due to the growth of the brain volume and the restructuring of its structure in the direction of associative, abstract and creative thinking in order to achieve initially purely utilitarian goals: to outwit and use everybody else.
That is, these new beings came out of just one adaptive stay in only one according to their sensations of an extended space and they entered into the current time due to the coming of the understanding that they are also in it, which is confirmed by their ability to prudently dispose of them, making various plans, sometimes far-reaching.
This understanding alone provides the opportunity in a series of events to purposefully change the environment, expanding the range of pleasant sensations and achieving greater safety.
Naturally, the joint collective activity, planned-projected in its basis, requires more precise, diverse and qualitatively different forms of communication for the organization and coordination of joint work. Gestures and inarticulate sounds are not enough.
We therefore fix that the chimpanzees, as well as all other living beings that not own time, unlike a person, are located only in the space of repetitive homogeneous relationships leading with instincts and reflexes, and using, as a rule, the trial and error method in their desire to preserve sensations and make them, if possible, more pleasant, which leads to a significant limitation in the consumption as well as generating of information flows, not allowing us to fully reveal the possibilities of living beings in relation to the development of consciousness.
The space of this half-asleep existence for them is limited only by their own sensations without any special reflections, which mainly serve to preserve the same sensations, and they do not guess about the end of these sensations, but, again, only feel it by their own decrepitude, if they manage to live to old age.
The extent of this homogeneous space of sensations is determined for them by the realities of their own environment, developed instincts, reflexes and genome, which includes a program of growth, development, reproduction and ways of interacting with the environment to stay in it.
Thus, the support of all these adaptive beings, including also the most advanced ones, is only sensations, and their thinking mainly serves the desire of these creatures to preserve their sensations, among which there are also pleasant ones, which is automatically indicated by dissatisfaction with what is around with the formation of an ever-present the aspiration for something more nourishing, warm and safe.
Someone who does not know about time, and therefore about the existence of the future, can only remain in the limited space of the present with the addition of the remembered past with no hope of mentally penetrating the future.
Therefore, all these beings are doomed to no more than adaptation to what is around them and next to them. They simply cannot have ideas about transforming this environment for their own even remote benefit, that is, they are not capable of purposefully transforming the environment according to pre-designed projects and schedules, thus subject to fairly random changes in the course of evolution, and the limit of these changes in terms of intelligence and complexity of the organism itself are the highest mammals.
This limit is determined by the program embedded in the genome, according to which only an adaptive form of existence is possible for these creatures within the framework of the preservation of sensations.
The conditions of existence are capable of destroying a species, improving or make it worse adaptability to the environment, but they cannot radically change its program in the genome to an action of the opposite type - a systematic struggle with the environment, while preserving, moreover, partly, the adaptability of actions.
Therefore, the assumption of modern science that anthropogenesis (the transformation of humanoid apes into people) could have begun with the emergence of certain natural conditions on the planet turns out to be completely untenable - evolution is by no means a revolution, and randomness is not capable of generating in some changed conditions such an unusual, as was indicated above, program in the genome, but is only capable of destroying or changing a living being without its fundamental transformation.
And the deprivation of the adaptive form of consciousness based on instincts and reflexes its leading role is a fundamental change in a living being and its behavior, which is possible only as a result of a corresponding change in the program in the genome which also initiates the emergence of self-consciousness, characterized by arbitrary thinking.
In other words, in the absence of this change in the program, living beings, having reached their limit in highly developed mammals, remain so to this day, despite everything that has happened over tens of millions of years, including various metamorphoses of the environment and even catastrophes, and this is manifested in their unwillingness to get out of this pleasant adaptive extended space of connections outside of time for themselves.
But a person who partly fell out of this adaptive extension, thanks, as we believe. the appearance in his genome of an additional program that provokes arbitrary actions in the environment, quite quickly realized that he is being in the current time in which you can knowledgably manage yourself and your environment, one way or another changing it according to your own ideas.
True, he has also realized that he lives only for a certain time, and with its completion, what he created during his life disappears for him. And he cannot but be horrified at this, envying animals that do not understand the inevitable arrival of death, grazing, for example, with all the pleasantness of sensations, on their green lawns. But along with that a person's understanding of his temporality also benefits the development of his consciousness, since he wants his offspring, in which he seems to prolong himself, to live better than him and apply all the forces for this.
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As mentioned above, a contra-adaptive additional program in the genome could not have appeared under the influence of conditions or accidentally actually synchronously with the emergence of the most advanced of all living beings, the primate, also because of unimaginable complexity of this program.
In addition, programs, as it is known from computer technology, are created by human programmers, do not arise by themselves from nowhere, and are not suddenly replaced in cardinal way.
In other words, the probability of self-assembly of such biological carrier of the program is practically zero, and, accordingly, it cannot be convincing evidence of the natural origin of the genome, despite all the efforts of evolutionists.
Likewise, the emergence of such being, largely separated from the environment, that is, partly extra-natural being, self-aware in the current time, does not look like a natural product of this environment, but a kind of nonsense, which is proven by its uniqueness: not a single one of the highly developed beings on the planet by itself, that is, as a result of natural selection alone over billions of years, has turned into such contradictory creation, combining an adaptive-egocentric individuality together with an altruistic and creative personality.
In addition, evidence of the emergence of a person on the basis of the monkey genome due to the artificial modification of this genome is the fact of unusually rapid restructuring of the genome, which contradicts the speed of evolutionary development usually stated by evolutionists.
The absence of such a smooth evolutionary transition is confirmed by the data of a study conducted by an international consortium of scientists. It included 67 scientists from 23 scientific institutions in 5 countries - the USA, Israel, Spain, Italy and Germany.
During the research they used the computer overlay of the genome map of a chimpanzee on the genome map of a person that has allowed them to mark out three categories of so-called DNA-duplications - those that are available in the human genome, but are absent in a genome of a chimpanzee, those that are available in a genome of a chimpanzee, but are absent in the human genome and those that are available in a genome of both types. DNA-duplication is one of forms of a mutation at which the site of a chromosome is doubled. In this case the segments of DNA with the length not less than 20 thousand nucleotide pairs were considered. It turned out that about a third of DNA-duplications, found in a person, are absent at a chimpanzee. This figure fairly surprised geneticists, inasmuch it testifies to very high frequency of mutations for short (on evolutionary measures) period (See, e.g., dw.de› decryption of a genome … and … its comparing … human).
This shows that the explanation of emergence of a person, offered by evolutionists, as a result of smooth transition of one of type of primates to a person, connected with labor activity and manifestation of communication (socialization) with the help of words that the evolutionists does not recognize in relation the other primates, doesn't maintain criticism.
There is the only explanation of rather rapid transformation of one of type of primates into a person: introduction into the genome (induction) by no means not in a random way the programs, promoting formation at this type of primates of the concepts, distracted from concrete things as a result of communication with similar beings, different ways of evaluating own actions, that promotes emergence of an opportunity for these beings to look at the world from outside, to estimate its usefulness for themselves and to try to change this world purposefully under themselves.
It is known that the ray of light can be modulated by the signal bearing information which is capable to set certain programs of development or to correct the available programs. In particular, at Institute of Problems of Management of the Russian Academy of Sciences the exemplar of DNA has been placed between the laser and an external mirror. Both the direct and reflected beams not only apprehended genetic information, but also radiated it in corresponding frequency range.
Obviously, for emergence at primates of awareness of own existence in the current time were to happen some fundamental internal changes which weren't for all the time of existence of organisms on Earth. What are these changes, if a person has appearance, structure of organs and even the structure of the genome close to that of a chimpanzee?
It is possible to state the following: the similar internal change can only be caused by additional programming of a genome to aware activity.
The following can be stated: such an internal change can only be additional programming of the genome for the aware activity, including the arbitrary, which can be also the creative activity, while the genome for billions of years before the appearance of a person was programmed in all living beings only for instinctive-reflexive activity using the trial and errors method, suitable just for adaptive existence in an extended space of connections.
Therefore, the transformation of the most perfect primate, and this could be a chimpanzee or even more perfect primate, into a prototype of a person is possible only as a result of supplementing the existing adaptive program with another one, capable of provoking a being also for rather arbitrary actions outside the framework of instincts and reflexes.
Apparently, the genome of only one type of chimpanzee or similar monkey was rebuilt for this new program, which unites the previous and introduced ones, as is known, 99% identical to the human genome, which technically simplifies the matter.
Otherwise, that is, with smooth evolutionary development, the possibility of the highest developed primates leaving the adaptive state is simply absent. And indeed, they still remain in this unpromising quality in parallel with a person.
Thus, the most probable reason for the appearance of a person is the artificial change in the genome of the highest developed primate, which forced him to change the purely adaptive way of life to a kind of dual one - adaptive-arbitrary, that is, with the possibility of conscious actions, which can also be creative.
At first, this ingenuity by purposefully change the environment in its favor looked sporadic (the use of fire, the manufacture of primitive tools for labor, the invention of the wheel), but over time it expanded so much that it led to the emergence of such social structure as civilization, a kind of shell of which to a certain extent has insulate a person from wildlife.
Nevertheless, the adaptive part of the general program has not gone anywhere from the genome and still affects the human behavior, competing with an additional program in the genome, which is characterized for the most part not by egocentricity, but by provoking a rather frequent manifestation of ingenuity and altruism in a person.
The manifestation of similar competition of these differently coded parts of the common genome is what finally brought one of the representatives of living beings beyond the limits of the adaptive existence, providing for him a many times more significant consumption of information flows and the corresponding development of consciousness, bringing a person to the proud presentation of himself as a pearl of creation.
True, a person still has not understood that he became like this not by himself, but as a result of the action of such a program in each cell of his own organism, which guarantees him both the ability to adapt and the possibility of creative actions.
As a result, in the human consciousness arose two poles, oriented in opposite directions - egocentrism and altruism, which made it possible, instead of long-term evolutionary changes, to produce literally explosive conscious actions by human communities on this basis of dual contradictory consciousness, stimulating by the struggle of these components of consciousness both in each person and in his communities, the development of not only society as a whole up to the emergence of civilization, but also the development of the human self-consciousness, evidence of which is the increase of mass in the human brain compared to a highly developed primate by 3 times.
You can get acquainted in detail with the problem of the driving force of social development, the basis of which is the interaction of the animal (adaptive) component of the human consciousness and its inventive self-consciousness, in my work "The driving force and source of development of the person and his communities." (2018. [Electronic resource]. Access mode: Amazon. Yury Nizovtsev.)
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To briefly to formulate the explanation by Darwin's evolutionary theory supporters of the conversion of reflex operating primates in conscious operating people, it is as follows.
They point out that any higher animals did not have the ability to conceptual thinking, i.e. to the formation of abstract representations about subjects, which summarizes the basic properties of concrete things. The process of thinking for animals if it is possible to speak about that, is always concrete, the process of thinking for a person can be the abstract, generalizing, conceptual, logical. Thanks to ability to conceptual thinking, a person understands that he does, and understands the world. The second main difference is that a person possesses the speech. Animals can have very developed system of communication by transmitted signals but only a person has the second signal system — communication through words. It is supposed in natural sciences that the speech came from the sounds uttered during the work which then became common in the course of joint labor. In the same way a mind could occur in the process of social labor gradually.
The evolutionists believe that Darwin's theory has received genetic confirmation in the XX century, since from all the animals the chimpanzee genome upon the genetic apparatus is the closest to human. This genome is identical to the human genome on 99%.
We note with his hand, that, as it is paradoxical, but both arguments of the evolutionists: labor had created a person; a person is genetically almost indistinguishable from chimpanzees, actually lead to the opposite conclusion.
Themselves biologists say that the animal's behavior represents one of forms of functioning of its organism. The structure of the organism determines the needs of animals and their behavior programs. Any animal is born as a being endowed by the set of instincts. Instincts provide its adaptability to environmental conditions and limit individual variations of the behavior.
The situation is different with a person. All people which have lived on Earth the last 35 - 40 thousand years belong to the same type (Homo sapiens).
Thus, for years of change of organisms from the simplest to the primates the reflex system of their reaction to influence of the environment remained actually the same. In other words, programs of their actions are similar each other. And suddenly, for the slight term, in a result of rather short-term influence of external conditions, some species of primates has acquired self-consciousness, that is, understanding of their location in the current time, while others remained monkeys outside this understanding. At this, it is not known which of these monkeys "worked" more, and in fact, monkeys neither then, nor now had and have no relation to conscious collective activity, simply picking up ready-made meal in the tropics, rich in a variety of food.
This very fact denies the spontaneous desire of monkeys for collective work and the formation of verbal communication between them.
Now the theory of Darwin is recognized, at least, disputable just because to explain how the monkey evolved into a person from a position of modern science is not possible.
Obviously, for the emergence of consciousness in the primates had to be occurred certain fundamental internal changes which were not for all the time of existence of organisms on Earth. What are these changes, if a person by its appearance, the structure of organs and even the structure of a genome is very close to a chimpanzee?
It is possible to state the following: only the change of the genome programmed to the instinctive and reflex unconscious activity on the genome programmed also on the conscious collective labor can be as such internal change.
Therefore, the transformation of the most perfect primate - it could be a chimpanzee or an even more perfect primate - into a human prototype is possible only by changing the program.
One of hypotheses believes that the closest human ancestor was a monkey lagoon from Ethiopia. She had less indumentum, she swam well. A significant part of the day she was walking vertically. She had "lowered larynx", the appearance of which, apparently, she is obliged to the semi-aquatic lifestyle. The important thing is that the similar larynx gives the chance to control respiration and, as a result, lets ability to speak.
After similar restructuring, it becomes possible to transform this creature from the adaptive into the adaptive-creative, that is, capable not only of adaptation, but also of transforming the environment for its own purposes. This procedure, which initially consists of introducing an additional program into the creature's genome, creating the possibility of arbitrary and even creative actions, brings this new creature the opportunity to manifest itself in the current time with the consequences of such genome transformation known to us.
Everything else: the ability to labor together with fellow tribesmen, coherent speech, creative thinking, etc. is developed as a consequence over a certain and comparatively not very long period of time, consolidating the dual nature of consciousness and the corresponding actions of this new subject of the history of living beings not so much within the limits of spatial adaptive extension with its insignificant variability based on chance, but in the current event time of various changes, entailing not only the possibility of purposeful transformation of the environment by man in a utilitarian manner, but also the opposite - the desire of a person in his self-consciousness to understand himself and the world around.
It also becomes clear why the transitional link from primates to a person has not yet been found. All the rest are approximately the same primates, not affected by the said transformation, have remained in their previous animal quality. Although, in fact, the conditions of their existence were little different from the existence of the original "candidate" for a person.
Thus, we can say that a being capable only of instinctive-reflexive actions has one program, and this new creature has a different program, more complex and contradictory in its impact on the behavior of a person. Thanks to it, it becomes possible to project one's actions for the future, process their results for subsequent adjustment, using the already accumulated memory from a much larger database than that of primates. At the same time, the adaptive egocentric influence of the program on human behavior does not disappear.
The problem of the emergence of a person is considered in more detail in my work "The person - a product of evolution?! Whether everything is so clear here?! (2018. [Electronic resource]. Access mode: Litres or Amazon. Yury Nizovtsev).
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As a result of the long evolutionary development of living beings, the most advanced of them, that is, extremely complex creatures - primates, settled quite comfortably in their adaptive space, since they not only had a developed brain capable of controlling the execution of various actions that make life easier, but also, unlike, for example, dolphins, - organs in the form of hands with grips - fingers, which were convenient for obtaining food in various ways, climbing trees for safety, fighting off enemies and doing much more.
This is how, in our opinion, a candidate for a certain extent a non-adaptive lifestyle to appeared, especially since one of the subspecies of these monkeys - the African lagoon monkey, as a result of its semi-aquatic lifestyle, developed the so-called "lowered larynx". It allows you to control your breathing and thus provides the ability not only to scream and moo, but also to pronounce articulate sounds with vowels and consonants.
However, as noted above, the monkeys' way of life did not facilitate the organization of their cooperative actions in one or another form of labor. And gestures and inarticulate sounds were quite sufficient for their communication.
In contrast, with a program that allows them to act quite arbitrarily, such a candidate becomes capable of going beyond the limits of instinctive and reflexive actions, expanding thereby their capabilities for interaction with the environment.
But the most effective labor requires not individual or isolated actions, but the organization of sufficiently thought-out and coordinated actions together, which can be most effective if they are planned in advance, providing for the bypass or elimination of certain obstacles to achieving the set goal, for example, during a collective hunt or fruit gathering. Meanwhile, inarticulate cries and gestures are not the most effective methods of transmitting information during complex collective actions.
Therefore, there has been a need for the formation of sound articulate signals, denoting both numerous relationships, actions, specific objects, and denoting various types of relationships, actions and objects.
Such generalization meant not only the gradual formation of the logic of events and relations, the connection of objects in the present, but their transfer to the future in the form of planned and design procurements.
The emergence of this kind of purposeful activity, which embraces the future along with the past and the present, meant an exit from the spatial adaptive extension of the instinctive-reflexive mode of action repeated every day, into the current time, in which a series of events are initiated by these new beings consciously and purposefully.
In other words, these heirs of the primates acquired, to a certain extent, a regulated time of their own within the framework of external (astronomical) time, since this own time is largely created by them themselves as a result of conscious labor efforts to achieve various goals, which are initially dictated only by urgent needs, and then these goals are directed toward improving the culture of housing, the culture of games, the culture of sex and the culture of idol worship.
As a result of collective activity to overcome the resistance of the environment, and not just passive subordination to it, gradually each community had a rather simple at first articulate language, instead of caves and trees, more comfortable dwellings made of improvised materials, a differentiation of labor with appropriate tools arose.
Note also that for the emergence of a verbal language of communication, these primate heirs had a certain base, since the life of their progenitors was largely based on the use of various images.
The fact is that the highest mammals are capable of holding in their minds for a relatively long time, that is, in virtual form, images of specific things, separated from the things themselves, which increases the probability of keeping these animals in existence, although only at the level of sensations within the framework of adaptation to the environment, but, nevertheless, performing the role of extrapolating data from memory into images of the near future.
For example, the primates store in their memory images of predators that can attack them while collecting fruit from trees and therefore prudently post guards to control the approaches to the collection site.
Nevertheless, the consciousness of primates in relation to the creation of images of the future is set in the program of their own genome only for adaptability in relation to this environment, focusing the attention only on food, reproduction and improving the situation in the occupied niche.
Be that as it may, the most convincing proof of the presence in all living beings of a program designed only for adaptation to their own environment is the absence of significant changes in the behavior of higher mammals over tens of millions of years, which have survived to this day (chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans).
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All this clearly shows the fundamental meaning of the word. And it is not for nothing that the "New Testament" (the Gospel of John) begins like this: "In the beginning was the Word"
It was the word, first in the form of the code of a new dual program, which provided the possibility of arbitrary actions, has extracted the transformed beings from the adaptive spatial world of animals, which bound animals to repetitive actions of the same type, and placed them in the world of fast-flowing time with its continuous series of diverse events, passions, struggles, conscious collective actions.
It was in this world of understanding one's own presence in the current time that living beings finally acquired the ability to consciously change it through collective actions based on a plan, that is, again, on a word. The word, in essence, was being formed from the figurative, that is, wordless, virtual reflection of objects, phenomena and relationships in the course of collective efforts to change one's own surrounding, allowing one to see even the distant future thanks to the transformation of images in the mind by the corresponding encoding in the form of a word with subsequent transfer to the corresponding information carrier.
And the information itself for us is basically a word, manifesting itself not only as a symbol of an object, that is, in the form of diverse and numerous sound reflections of images of certain objects (phenomena) or a certain set of objects (tree - forest), but also as a living image of a changing reality, which is especially impressively manifested in art, which in speeches from the stage since ancient times has brought to light the secret world of feelings, experiences, struggles and impressions, making the audience cry and laugh, worry and suffer, removing them from the monotonous animal well-fed life in which nothing significant happens.
Therefore, the meaningful pronunciation of articulate sounds, concretely or abstractly reflecting the objective world with all its relationships, had transferred the living world, represented by creatures who possess words, from being in the space of unconscious connections of objects and phenomena to the world of meaningful actions to change this world for their own purposes.
However, purely sound transmission of information significantly limited communication to the framework of just a few generations, often being greatly distorted.
Therefore, each sound word found its reflection over time on various media in the form of drawings and various graphics, preserved in some countries to this day in the form of hieroglyphs, but, for the most part, recorded in the most simplified drawings - letters, giving in their combination what is required, which actually has connected the distant past with the present and allowed people to successfully develop culture, science and technology, relying first on handwritten, and then printed texts, learning, so to speak, to read and write from them from childhood.
The word, transforming images of possible actions into a specific procedure of collective labor, makes the process of changing reality meaningful and even creative not only in art, but also in the study of this reality, allowing us to comprehend its patterns and, on this basis, improve reality artificially, changing life itself. This makes it both more comfortable and develops the human mind, which captures new spheres of activity, stopping, however, when it reaches the limit of its organic capabilities, but trying to go beyond these limits with the help of the artificial intelligence and the unification of all people in a single information network-web.
However, a person gets stuck in this web, because it does not provide him with the opportunity for further development and forces him to make mistakes due to the inability to perceive the flows of information, excessive for an adequate understanding of their essence, arising as a result of his own actions, and the artificial world of civilization created by him is destroyed, which demonstrates the discreteness of the appearance of the civilizations that arise, function and disintegrate, nevertheless, endlessly (see, for example, Nizovtsev Yu. M. Miracles in a sieve Chapters 3, 4. 2016. [Electronic resource]. Access mode: Amazon. Yury Nizovtsev).
Be that as it may, the word imprinted on carriers connects us with previous generations, expanding our memory with all their achievements, and in conjunction with current deeds constantly multiplies the flow of information that captivates us, accelerating the course of own time of human communities in alternating generations, in which we become more humane and increasingly prosperous, but the organic connection of word with deed, with collective labor efforts, their interdependence, does not allow us to cut word and deed, calming down in the achieved well-being of pleasant idleness of the virtual world.
The result of similar calming of the world, thereby separated from labor, from accomplishments, from development, is the collapse of civilization together with its time, but it is restored after some pause again in the connection of the word with the deed through the image of this deed, because the word in all its meanings and endless multiple semantic combinations is information encrypted by a person himself about all his possibilities and achievements, and the image is the information manifested in the consciousness of a person, representing his surrounding, accessible to him at the corresponding level of development, and the objective world itself is the materialized information intended for use by a person.
Therefore, the word, image and collective labor are inextricably linked in the human consciousness, creating the most saturated information flow compared to the information produced by the animal world, which does not possess the word, without which the conscious collective labor, creating events, and therefore, fast-flowing productive own time, cannot manifest itself.