The Polyglottal Perception Prism Part II - Mortal Immortals

The sphere of discourse is constantly expanding into the present, while each second one sided mirrors are installed, blocking those from the past from viewing the present.  However, that is not exactly how it works because "now" is relative.  The best humans can do is experience the world as it was milliseconds ago.  All we know is the relative "now" or about a couple of milliseconds in the past.  This is where time presents itself as a problem in communication that leads to heteroglossia, or, as one could imagine, individuality.  As members of a collective group, humans generally appreciate our individuality, and to an extent we cultivate it through our interactions in the world.  However, from this individuality arise differences, and where there are differences there is room for misinterpretation.  Behavior is composed of basically two components derived from the same source, genetics and environment.  Genetics being the result of several interactions in the environment, and development occurring within an environment.  The space one occupies is one component of the environment and incoming information is another.  The third portion of environment is "time".  However, "time" does not exist, it is the result of the combination of environmental factors and genetics in relation to an individual, to an individual.  Time, as we perceive it is the state of energy and matter within our perceptive systems currently.  Our perceptions of history and memories are the result of our current state, as a result of the flow of energy.  As beings composed of mass and energy, much as the universe, our state is simply a smaller scale version of the universal state.  However, due to our limited exposure to the flow of the universe, being only exposed to our relative space, our knowledge and understanding can never be complete, and therefore we can never truly "know"or "understand" anything outside of our individual universes.  Heteroglossia is an illusion in this sense.  Heteroglossia is the perception of the collective variances and multiple meanings in a text or discourse, however, because we as individuals can only experience our individual universe, the meanings we observe in texts and discourse are all of our own creation.  "If the art of poetry, as a utopian philosophy of genres, gives rise to the conception of a purely poetic, extrahistorical language, a language far removed from the petty rounds of everyday life, a language of the gods--then it must be said that the art of prose is close to a conception of languages as historically concrete and living things" (Bahktin 331).  I believe the reverse is true.  A utopian language, in which complete meaning is transfered, is soulless.  It is hollow.  There is no individuality to it.  All becomes one entity and becomes true.  On the other end of the spectrum, in chaos where there is no similarity between languages and communication, there is no interaction, so there is false.  This is the paradox of discourse, communication, and indeed the universe.

When communication transfers all information flawlessly, the interpretation of that information is perfect, then individuality is lost.  However, when communication fails completely, and no information is interpreted correctly, there is no understanding.  Hence, we are left in the world of perceptive probabilities.  Human's exist as energy and matter, which the universe is composed of.  From a universal perspective, a human is no different from anything else in the universe.  From a human perspective, every human is a unique individual.  This is the paradox.  We exist as entities of the in-between.  We are both different and the same on relative scales.  The sample size of data is all that determines our distinctions.  Such, is how we perceive the universe and communication.  We will never fully "know" nor fully "forget".  Such is our state as entities, the gods or our own languages, neither powerless nor omnipotent.  Mortal immortals.