Frances to Chris and Allan and Brian and others... This topic is posted to muse about the mental response a person has when sights or sounds are sensed. It seems that the sense of any object by any sensory mode will yield mainly or eventually an imaginative visual vision in the mind. This implies that a congenitally deaf person impaired since birth without ears to hear but who sees a visible object will have a visual experience of imaginative vision. This may also imply that a congenitally blind person impaired since birth without eyes to see but who hears an audible object will have at least an aural experience of imaginative audition, but also in any event they will have at most a visual experience of imaginative vision. All stuff given to mind by any sense modality will therefore lead eventually at base to a mental vision. This may also indicate the presence of synaesthesia at work.
It seems that visibly seen marks as sights or audibly heard tones as sounds that are given to sense will always yield in mind a root visual vision, and also possibly an added aural audition. This observation tends to suggest that the visible object in matter for normally sighted persons and the visual object in mind for normal or impaired persons are key factors in the human body and brain, whereby most information about the world is visibly culled and visually processed. The irony here is that the congenitally deaf person suffers more cognitive and discursive disability and endures more linguistic loss than the congenitally blind person. When even a sensory impaired or deprived person with the loss of any sense modality engages their own self in silent oral talk using the lingual grammar of a verbal language they will have at least an aural experience of imaginative audition and at most a visual experience of imaginative vision. Within a semiotic vein, all signs are degenerative moderators of sensed objects, but the main difference between signs as icons and indexes and symbols is how fast or direct the sign gets to or is taken by the mind to posit an imaginative mental vision, because say icons like visible pictures or whole depictions are more immediate or direct to sense and mind, while say symbols like lingual lectures or linear definitions are more mediate or indirect to sense and mind. It may further be that depictions and auditions and definitions are alike by being akin to propositions, and further that visions and notions and nominations as derived from propositions are alike by being akin to arguments. If nonverbal depictions or auditions can be used for example as one of the three proposed premises in a syllogism, then the development of languages other than verbal and the acquisition of thoughts other than discursive may be realizable. My guess is that all visual visions and aural auditions and verbal notions or nominations are subjective mental constructs that occur in mind as the result of sense being given objective material constructs. To this extent what seems imagined in mind to have been sensed is thus real. The psyche therefore is phenomenal and existential and experiential and sensorial. Since mental mind is of material matter in the psychical brain and physical body, then matter must in some way be effete mind and operate in quasi thought. The attributed essence and manifested substance of matter is thus preparatory to the exemplified presence of mind. The study of aural arts in the form of sonic art and vocic art and music art may furthermore be good preparatory examples for the field of seminal signs, as aesthetics is likely preparatory for logics and as philosophy is clearly preparatory for science.
