How Were Intelligence and Language Created in Human Brain

Abstract

The final objective of this talk is to make clear the origin of language and intelligence. Since intelligence depends on language, origin of language rather than intelligence is mainly discussed.

First of all a problem immanent in the current understanding of language is discussed. The structure and the meaning of languages were analyzed by many philosophers such as F. Saussure, F.L.G. Frege, B.A.W. Russell, L.J.J. Wittgenstein, N. Chomsky and the others, and the characteristics of language were made almost clear by them. What is to be noted in their discussions is that language is thought originated from a latent potentiality of human being. F. Saussure named it language in contrast to real languages, named langue by him, that are generated from language. Chomsky asserts Universal Grammar as the origin of language and that it is biologically inherent to human being. But they do not explain anything about what is this latent potentiality or how language was created. If human being came out of an evolutional process of living things, then language had to be created at some point in this process. There was nothing before that. How primitive human being could create such complex existence as language which many philosophers with highest intelligence such as listed above had interested in. This is a big mystery.