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How words are contained in human minds in the beginning of language creation. I suppose the word for eye is the first word created by humans. Other word was not created. Was there a mental image for the real thing eye before the first word was created or a mental definition? It is the same question we ask today for the animals. Do animals have mental images of the actual thing of the world? If we experiment now with ourselves saying “eye” what will happen in our mind? Do you see any eye image after you thought, or said the word “eye”? I did it, and no eye image passed in my mind, but I cannot conclude it was the same for the first word. I think, for the first word there was not created a mental definition in human brain. In the first word in the human mind the image of an eye, which existed before as it exists in animals was recorded in a brain cell  in full awareness for the first time . That moment human brain broke the border of the animal brain taking awareness to the images...

How are words made?

All our knowledge about how words are made is almost zero. We know only how words sound when we say them and how words look when we write them, nothing else, nothing more. Let’s look more closely at one word you have already read on my previous articles. It is the word for the eye. How words are contained in human minds in the beginning of the language creation? I suppose the word for eye is one the first words created by humans. How did it happen? Was it just a mental image for the real thing eye before the word "eye" was created or a mental definition? It is very similar to the question we ask in our modern time for the "language" of animals. Do animals have in their brains the mental images of the actual things of the world? If we experiment now with ourselves saying “eye” what will happen in our mind? Do you see any eye image after you thought, or said the word “eye”? I did it, and no eye image came in my mind, but I cannot conclude it was the same for th...