Reality (is) as a Language. Is this really so Ridiculous? I think not.

So tell me if you think that Reality isn’t a Language - or do you still think that we are Geometric Physicalist Objects and Matter floating around bumping into one another...

One commenter said on my channel, simply: “Reality is not a language, this is just nonsense” and we may expect that to lay persons it would seem at best an oddity to make this very claim; and yet it remains true: Reality is a Language.

The Greatest minds in Philosophy today and before believed this to be true. And what is it opposed to? You might ask. Such people often believe that we inhabit a world of Objects and Matter. But I propose to you that if you study philosophy and psychology and depth religious metaphysic, then seeing the world as a place of Objects and Matter becomes laughable and dumb.

Langan stakes that our Language isomorphically couples to reality such that there is One-to-one theory-to-world mapping. Barring any delusional content, if our theories retained in language are coherent and applicable, then yes they do describe reality up to Isomorphism. And remember, if our language did not couple isomorphically then there would be no way of communicating correct perceptual ideas through language to each other: if I said ‘Go sit in that chair’ and there was no isomorphic coupling then the statement would be meaningless and in fact it could not even exist as conceivable. Further the phenomenon of the ‘Unreasonable effectiveness of Mathematics’ could never take place without isomorphism. The things we say to each other perfectly parcel out our reality in discourse and this is a discourse ‘of’ and ‘by’ language. Thus Reality is a Language, according to Langan.

Heidegger said that ‘Language is the House of Being’ meaning much the same thing as what Langan works through. For Heidegger as for Langan the predicates of our language contain within themselves the selfsame descriptors of Reality. The Wall at the extent of my room stands - I determine this in binary logic but, further, I assign it as such in my predicate language; the very predicate of my knowledge is contained in the words and sentences themselves. Where words and sentences can be pregnant with many hundreds of binary presuppositions at once.

Now Jordan Peterson also discovered that we see the world as a forum for action, where things/objects have first valences and hierarchical values for our action towards them. And how do we apprise these valences and values? It is contained within our language, words and sentences of binary then predicate logic.

So if you are arguing that Reality is not a language then prepare to be met with the force of Western Civilization’s Greatest Minds in their own deep realizations, what they have come to with decades of their intense and deliberate contemplation of the the issue. Philologists and Psychoanalysts of all stripes could be thrown into the mix who have things to say about the ‘Symbolic’ (read language) and Semiotics.

Finally I might point out that in the biblical corpus God is the Logos - a living language, the ‘Word.’ That is, the Creator himself is an embodied Language and Using language to construct habitable order (as Peterson likes to say). And as he creates the World he speaks a pronouncement over it to solidify his work: “Then God said, ‘Let there be light’…And God saw the light, that it was good.” (Genesis 1:3-4; NKJV) Just knowing Light from Day, Firmament from the Deep of the Waters and so on…all expressed as a language by Man who lives inside of his articulated linguistic world. With all this said let us summarize. Language/words are Isomorphic to Reality up to a profound coupling (Langan); Language is the House of Being, the very shelter in which we live (Heidegger); and the World of Objects means nothing if it isn’t assigned a Language to provide Valence and Value (Peterson); finally God is a Living Language out of which the world is made.

So tell me if you think that Reality isn’t a Language - or do you still think that we are Geometric Physicalist Objects and Matter floating around bumping into one another with energy dissipating and exchanging. See how reductionist this is. Its not that I just like to say it; no, rather Reality is a Language, Full Stop. - Best, Greg W.