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Why WORDS Matter: In order to act, we need concepts, “Suppose you are breathing heavily, sweating profusely and your heart is beating rapidly. Are you excited about something; are you fearful of something; are you physically exhausted? Concepts therefor prescribe actions: If you are breathing heavily, sweating profusely and your heart is beating rapidly, what should you do?” To create a concept you need input from your inner self and the outer world through a sensor like ears; then you need to categorize that block or chunk of data to provide meaning and project how we will act. In order to process the data we need to categorize and to categorize we need background, our experiences, and experience requires words, word patterns and various word collections to provide meaning.
A prerequisite of social reality is...language. No other species other than human have collective intentionality combined with words. This combination, collective intention and words, allows us to categorize cooperatively, which is the basis of communications and social influence. Without social influence and communications, all comprised of words, there is no training, practice or the passing of the baton to those who would follow.
Words invite people to form concepts by grouping together physically dissimilar things for some purpose. Words are the most efficient shorthand we know for communication concepts that a collective of people can and do share, group dynamic.
Words are power! The use of words in patterns, etc., are how humans place idea's directly into another persons mind. It is a kind of special telepathy that encourage mental inference: figuring out the intentions of others, others goals and objectives and most important, "beliefs."
Critical information are stored in the brains/minds of other people and words are a vehicle for inferring that information.
In order to pass on and teach concepts to others and others who follow you have to have words to teach that concept efficiently. The concept of collective intention requires that every member of a group share a similar concept. The instance of each concept can vary widely with few regularities in the physical features and all group members must learn them in some fashion. This requires, fundamentally, learning a word.
People form certain concepts before knowing a word. On the other hand, certain concepts require words. Humans can only introduce mental similarity by the use of words. Words trigger us to infer objectives and goals that will anchor concepts.
No one knows yet whether concepts come before words or words before concepts and yet it is clear that words are vitally linked to the way people develop and pass on mental concepts.
Lets dial it back to martial practices, a commonly believed concept of the dojo and martial arts is “one who comes before,” and that is in regard to a senior who holds the knowledge and understanding that is to be passed to those who come after. It is described as a meaning and translation of the term, Sensei, i.e., “Sensei (can be pronounced "Sensai" as well), is an honorific term shared in Japanese honorifics that is translated as "person born before another" or "one who comes before". In general usage, it is used, with proper form, after a person's name, and means "teacher"; the word is also used as a title to refer to or address other professionals or persons of authority, such as clergy, accountants, lawyers, physicians, and politicians, or to show respect to someone who has achieved a certain level of mastery in an art form or some other skill, e.g., accomplished novelists, musicians, artists and martial artists.”
In this instance it symbolizes a person who has mastered a martial discipline, such as karate, and is passing it along, i.e., passing on his or her mental concepts. You can now perceive this concept as one that speaks to our very nature as humans, can you not? If you have a concept as defined herein, then you know and understand that the word, phrases and patterned words, drive how we learn, understand and create or manufacturer our very reality.
In that effort I created another tool (Martial Terminology Blog) that contributes to a concept of body budget where balancing that budget is about many things of which one is the use of and creation of words to convey mental concepts in teaching, learning, perceiving, understanding and applying concepts to every day life moments with a bit of emphasis on aggression and violence self-protection. The use of other languages is also a emotional maturity and intelligence benefit along with mental concepts, i.e., taking another language and couple that with that languages words or phrases and then creating and manufacturing words that may be accepted by the many making it real and a matter of reality, contribution to passing it forward.
The martial terminology effort is that exact concept where I used non-specific terminology of certain Japanese characters/ideograms to create a teaching tool that provides insight and possibilities through such words to create and manufacture mental concepts that enhance and evolve our understanding.
In so many words and varying concepts this is to contribute to your knowledge and understanding toward a greater set of skills or concepts necessary to apply martial disciplines to everything and especially aggression and violence protection and defense.
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