the grid explained

Is the approximated outward forms of underlying neural things, made in the image of innate thinkware?

Humans, of course, do not speak in coded numbers and signs, but in the language of words and sentences; humanity, moreover, not speaking in one but in some 7,000 distinct tongues we are told. But as the Grid would have it, all speak from the same source: In whatever language, all things spoken are but each man’s vocal rendition of the same active streams of eight-digit codes, triggered in the human brain by whatever stimuli internal or external.

As the brain gets wired up in early development, its connections form along perpendicular pathways, running horizontally, vertically and transversely. This grid structure appears to guide connectivity like lane markers on a highway, which would limit options for growing nerve fibers to change direction during development. If they can turn in just four directions: left, right, up or down, this may enforce a more efficient, orderly way for the fibers to find their proper connections — and for the structure to adapt through evolution, suggest the researchers.

“Before, we had just driving directions. Now, we have a map showing how all the highways and byways are interconnected,” said Van Wedeen. “Brain wiring is not like the wiring in your basement, where it just needs to connect the right endpoints. Rather, the grid is the language of the brain and wiring and re- wiring work by modifying it.” [Emphasis mine]

Is it the same grid? My answer: But where would these lanes and highways of our neuro-circuits be leading to but to neuro-addresses, properly coded for the most efficient delivery and retrieval required by our mental lives? And, by grid, why not by the coordinates of an eight quadrisectional grid?!

If the Tagalog Grid is the picture of an innate semantic structure in the brain then all of linguistics must eventually converge and intersect here, at this grid of language that we all must share to understand each other.

to babel and beyond, 2013