Yes—I enjoyed reading this Patty!

My question with regards to its opposite: the top down language acquisition conventional model… how do people divorce themselves from the whole-body package of information that each word carries?

I find that fascinating.

For me, life is a sensory bath of patterns and my body is organising it, continuously. There is depth and breadth. It’s not what it said; it’s what was not said, vocal tone and timing; to who, and for what reason… so much information carried in words.

My body is aware of this, and I wonder what it would be like to perceive only words.