Author: Logan Roscoe

Pain is an alarm system which rings at any indication of damaged tissue, flushing electrophysiological signals towards our brain like fire through weeds. Humans then learn to avoid any future actions that could stimulate the same reaction or cause the same wounds. Sometimes, however, there is no wound, and yet the alarm system still rings.

The degree to which language shapes cognition, thought, and perception is an ongoing debate in the field of linguistics—a debate without clear consensus. Some veins of thought appear to believe that the relation between language and perception is so inextricable that they give form to one other.