Summary Of When I Woke Up Tuesday Morning It Was Friday

Language is a part of biology. It is a survival trait that has evolved and been revolutionized, but what really is language? It is a chain of signification that involves the exchanging of one symbol for another, and in the end produces an arbitrary meaning that is up for interpretation. As demonstrated in “When I Woke Up Tuesday Morning, It Was Friday”, a person’s knowledge of the world is generated through language. Martha Stout inconspicuously infuses her ideas about knowledge into her work as she describes atypical situations in which she encounters as a psychologist. In accordance with Stout, Daniel Gilbert’s “Immune to Reality” illustrates that there is a powerful connection between language and body. As insinuated by both authors, language
“Regular memories are formed through adequate hippocampal and cortical input, are integrated as comprehensible wholes, and are subject to meaning-modification…through language”(Stout 421-22). All a person has biologically is language to understand anything, and a psychological immune system to protect them from bad experiences. The psychological immune system is what filters the stimuli that go into and out of the mind. Because language is symbolic, it effects ones perceptions by making it difficult to translate what one is experiencing well enough to allow for another person to see it in the same identical way. If people share the same experience, the memories could undergo this modification of meaning based on whose psychological immune system is interpreting it. The “ignorance of our psychological immune systems causes us to mispredict the circumstances under which we will blame others, but it also causes us to mispredict the circumstances under which we will blame ourselves” (Gilbert 134). When events occur that call for the guidance of the psychological immune system, but the help is unwanted, an imbalance inside oneself occurs and actions will be
As a result, the biological make up of language will allow for the internalization of symbols to produce sound reason. Reasoning can be expressed through experience and connections to that experience. Rather than trying to investigate what each individual symbol means, the whole idea of language is to see it and analyze language as a whole. Individual letters do not mean as much as whole essay. The information one letter, or one period, basically one symbol introduces is negligible in the whole aspect of the element of language. Therefore the biological nature of language affects how one thinks by entering the mind, and influencing how the brain should react in accordance to the signified meaning of the stimuli making a person reach beyond the boundaries of the known idea of language to idealize what could become of it. The mind is a system that interprets language and this in turn affects our actions because of the way the amygdala and other information processing structures configure the information processing systems inside the