What Came First?

Sound, or human? 

Every human expression is delivered via a sound. We need not witness the event. Mere sound delivers us identical joy, or sorrow to the listener, and to the experiencer. The experiencer does not recreate the event to another person. It is revealed in the form of a sound. Power of human sounds is immense. Unique experience for a superior race. The presence of those sounds in our minds, imagines it in everything we see. An animal does not communicate with sounds familiar to humanity, yet do we not detect the joy, or pain in an animal. It need not be an animal; we feel similarly with plant life as well. All around us we bond with uncommunicated experiences due to the presence of sounds we possess. Choice of language can vary; impact will be identical. 

Duality of sounds. Unchanged, and changing. Unchanged are sounds found in nature. Oceans, winds, rain, rivers, thunder, lightning, animals, and every object in the cosmos makes an unchanging sound. Our ancestral, and our experience with nature is identical. Natural sounds are a dialog between the object, and a greater object than the self. These natural sounds waves emanate, eternally, as obeisance, and to trigger changes. We have discovered, logically, that every object is purposeful. Thus, unchanging natural sounds will serve a purpose. Unchanging sound induces change in nature. What comes first, then? Sound comes first, change follows. Humanity is privileged to listen to a private conversation. These sounds forebode us whether change is imminent, if we possess mastery over these unchanging sounds found in nature. 

Changing sounds is what we utter with our language. The sound forms used in the English language a few centuries back are not the same sounds we utter today. Shakespearean English, and the present method of using the language is not identical. The language has undergone various transformations. The meaning of the words has transformed too. Enunciation of the sound varies from person to person. Variations in our language are many. Uniformity is completely absent. Logically we can derive that every language used by humanity has been transformed also. 

Oxford English Dictionary lists 171,476 words. The count of words varies by country and cultural heritage. Korean, for instance, has over one million words. Few languages of the world have as few as 10,000 words. Irrespective of the word count, the sounds of these languages would have been transformed, logically, is conclusive. Our experiences in life are encircled by these changing sounds we utter. Even though we have eyes for physical perception, nostrils for olfactory perception, mouth for gustatory perception, skin for touch perception, a small sound we say will deliver an identical feeling without the necessity for physical experience. Acoustic perception is superior to all other preceptory organs. Logically, and philosophically there cannot be another explanation for how acoustic perception supersedes all other mechanisms. We make an entry into the world with an acoustic expression.

Suppose we are accosted by an object without a sound element attached to it. It is unknown to us. We are unfamiliar with its existence. We do not know the purpose for the object we have in our possession. It need not be an ominous object. What do we seek before we attempt to touch the object? We want to know what it is. We seek an identifying acoustic element first. We want to know what the object is known as first. It could be precious for our life, but our refusal to touch it reveals the depth of our attachment to sounds. We will be ready to discard the object minus a sound bite association. A just born child would not have experienced anything, yet the child responds, appropriately, for all the sounds reaching the child’s acoustic organ is proof for the superiority of hearing for humanity. Sound comes first, feeling and experience are subsequent reactions to a sound bite. 

The English language has been existential for, approximately, 1400 years. Relatively young, a child among languages. It was spoken by the peasants in Great Britain, and the ruling class spoke French. Life was an unrewarding experience for the peasants 1400 years back. A language with roots in peasant life should not contain sounds for pleasures in life. It did not contain the richness of modern English, which emerged, approximately, 500 years back. Expressive sounds, surely, did not exist when English emerged as a spoken language. How did a language develop a richness of 171,476 words in 500 years? English, and many European languages belong to the Indo-European family. The operative word for this family is Indo, meaning India. Europeans traveled across Africa, Americas, and Asia, yet languages that have Indo-European roots reveal where richness for life was discovered. We do not have African, Asian, or American influences on language. 

Acoustic sounds we utter is how we visualize the world. We may not have experienced an individual’s plight, but when we hear it, we are able to form a conclusive experience. Plight, or joy we come to the experience from the sounds. It delivers us a transcendental feel that cannot be matched by experience. Life in modern times is experience driven. Our lifetime is not sufficient to experience the riches of life. Every word we utter evokes, and opens an unvisited layer of our mind. The more layers we open up, the richer our life becomes. Richer our life, the more purposeful our existence. More purposeful the existence, the closer we get to truth. Life erected on truth is the life of a human being. Instead of elements influencing our lives, we can influence elements. After all, superiority must deliver us a superlative experience unmatched in the physical realm. It commences with uttering a word. A sound makes impossible possible, invisible visible, unknown known, and unseen seen. What came first? Sound, unequivocally. 

Science may not have consensus, but sounds exist in our world, in some language to elevate life. A sound does not exist for an unknown, and undiscovered entity. Does humanity wait for science to discover, or do they embrace what exists, already, is an existential question for discovering a joy that has already been discovered. Fragrance of humanity lies in reaching for acoustic sounds that remain unchanged. A Grecian named Democritus coined the word ‘atom,’ 2,500 years back, based on the idea that there must be a point where one cannot cut something any smaller. He did not discover it in a laboratory. A thought was continued to a logical conclusion. Democritus is just one person in history. Countless others exist in our human history that deliver even richer experiences. Their emergence to the mainstream is the Post-Modern reality. What comes first!