In his book Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self, renowned Swiss psychoanalyst and psychiatrist, Carl Jung, observed that “Consciousness presupposes a differentiation into subject and object and a relation between them. Where there is no ‘other’, or it does not yet exist, all possibility of consciousness ceases.” Most models of consciousness look to physical explanations for the emergence of consciousness. In this paper, I present a model of consciousness that identifies natural languages, or more precisely the inner domain of Meaning in natural languages, as the sole source of this differentiation between subject and object and their ensuing relation. I will share how my investigation into how meaning is instantiated in words in English led to the discovery that sound-meaning relations in languages represent an ontologically distinct domain grounded in number; a domain that includes, among other architectural features, a design feature that operates to separate Self (What is Me) from Other (What is Not Me). The significance of this discovery is not simply that it explains the logic of consciousness, or that it offers insight into the inner architecture of thought, but rather that it recognizes a vast terra incognita ripe for further research and modelling.
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