Brain Algorithms and Human Language

Abstract

The two bioneurological algorithms of protein-nucleic acid synthesis and our triune modular brain structure, underpin, and shape the structure, process, and meaning of language in all human societies. They play differing but complementary roles. As in other aspects of our thought and behavior, the primary algorithm provides the framework for and is pervasively expressed in all language. As the primary cognitive process/framework the primary algorithm structures the relationship between language and thought. The second algorithm, on the other hand, as the essential somatic matrix shapes the semantic significance or value component of language. Each of the above claims will be examined in detail.

…The raw material [of language] is of no use unless it can be broken down as food proteins are broken down into amino acids, and built up again into the pattern of…indwelling latent structure

(Eric Lenneberg, M. D. 1967: 378)