All of this is new so I'll admit it is a bit difficult for me to express. Let me try to approach it from another way. Let's take mentality and physicality. Though this isn't entirely accurate, it could be said that mentality is simply the story of existence. It is the narrative and thoughtful counterpart to what we understand and feel as physicality. We think and feel because what we are is communicating both outwardly to the world around us and back inwardly to ourselves. The communication inward is experienced as mentality (subjectivity, thought, abstraction, and reflection, our interpretations and stories about what we are), while the outward communication is considered physicality (the objective, our perceptions, whatever we experience and feel to be communicated from the "outside" can be said to have a physical basis). The two are inseparable, as existence is the simultaneous expression (the communication of what we are outwardly to whatever exist beyond our bodies) and reception/feeling (being what we are inwardly) of a thing as it is. Outwardly that shows up as something perceivable or receivable to others, objective. Inwardly it shows up as something perceivable and receivable to oneself, subjective. Language is a complex form of this communication. It further propels the natural communication of existence inwardly and outwardly. Language, communicating existence (which is experiencing (at least in human form) itself as being something (mentally an identity and physically a body)), is ultimately a communication of identity because it is utilized within and oriented from the mental realm of identity. The communication of identity (or what we are, for instance if we "are" hungry, we will communicate hunger) through language is a connection between the identity (I am or we "are") and the physical or objective realm (what my body feels, eg. the feeling of hunger is physical) through an identification of that realm as the language or communication.
I feel and perceive the visual experience of the computer screen in front of me. The word computer is not the actual object of my perception, but instead it is for me the connection between my identity or feeling of existence and the object I am experiencing. In this way the object is a part of what I am, as it pertains and contributes to my experience of existence and identity, but we have an ability to detach the object from our subjectivity through the language. In essence, though language is the connection between the identity and feeling of existence and all the objects of that existence, it is simultaneously the separation or separating of objects from each other (including the subjective self as an object). The computer is no longer just a sense I am experiencing as my existence, but is now a termed object that I can talk about separate from myself in the realm of language. Because I have termed the identity of the object (in this case the computer), instead of just relating the computer to myself and own identity, I can relate it to another identified object. In this way, all of language is metaphorical as any identified object must relate to another (the initial being the identity or I). This means the language is utilized to communicate the realm In this way, the language or communication, because it is being shared, becomes the experience of identity All of language orients from the identity, both the feeling and mental communication of being something.
The evolution of Interpretation:
Language was initially a communication of the subject and it's feelings or physical desires (whatever it was and felt in the moment), eg. "I am". As it evolved, language began to encompass what is outside of the initial feeling of existence or being, ie. the objects of feeling and existence/identity. This is the second level of language. Even further, identities and terms were established for the environment, which were then utilized to connect back to the feeling of identity. For example, "I am hungry" (the second level of language) becomes "I am hungry, give me food" (third level). As language evolved further, the feeling of existence and identity (being) had to further become engulfed and identified as the language and communication itself. This identification with the language happens at the first level of communication and language and as the language evolves and becomes more complex, the identity maintains this identification with the language. Because the language is felt and experienced as the identity (as the language is identified with based on its formation), it can be considered a narration of the identity. The narration becomes the expression of the identity, eg. I am hungry is an expression of feeling hunger. Because we identify and express our identities through the language, what we are perpetuates a growing interest in the narration itself. This is the mark of the fourth level language. Once the objects are named and a language is in place, an interpretation or story about how the objects appear and feel in existence can be created. This perpetuation occurs through what can be referred to as a pseudo-objectification or separation of the subject and its feelings and what it is trying to explain or tell a story about in the environment.
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