Namaskāra to all,

I continue in my reading of the Mandala of Indic Studies web site hosted by Rajivji Malhotra's Infinity Foundation web site. This article has a bullet section that JUMPED out at me.

http://www.infinityfoundation.com/ma...a_frameset.htm


Introduction

Alex Comfort summarized in l979 the problems of objectivity and subjectivity in science the way Shankara did in Indian tradition so many centuries earlier:

  1. What we call "nature" consists of "arrays" on which human mentation imposes structure.
  2. Phenomena, which are our only contact with these arrays, are exactly what their name implies, namely "appearings" in which structure has been imposed.
  3. In some instances what appears to be phenomena --time is an example-- may turn out to be wholly structures, namely consequences of a particular manner of intuitivistic data-processing.
  4. What we call the "I" or self is the shadow of a delay mechanism in the brain between its "oceanic" state of world perception and its "substitution", namely the selective reading of the same event through linguistic structures.


Point four is what I'm wondering about - Please, someone, explain what that means. This means that "what I experience or perceive" gets filtered through the "inner voice" we hear within the amygdala? Really?? REALLY??? Are you serious?? O. M. Gosh!! This reveals the two states of perception that I've always had! I don't know this, as I did not grow up like hearing children, but it seems to be that people normally hear a voice within as they experience things, whereas I do not. I have to consciously make myself get the "inner voice" started. It also seems to be saying that the perception is also filtered by the language structures in one's language. I experience things directly, and my older cousin noticed that in my interactions with the world around me during the deaf years.

Praṇāma