“Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death…”

“Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.”--Psalm 23:4

‘Yea, though I walk trough the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for my Basic-Level Categorizations and Kinesthetic Imager Schemas form reality for Me.’--coberst

Experience is structured in a fundamental way before any concepts, invigorated by sense data, are constructed. Existing preconceptual structures affect newly developing structures of what we experience.

We have preconceptual structures that await any new experience and perhaps the most fundamental of these is the container schema. This container schema has a boundary that distinguishes the container’s interior from the exterior.

With a little thought we can find dozens of instances during the day when we distinguish in-out activities. We emerge out of a deep sleep and into the morning sunlight; we get out of bed and go to the kitchen to take the bread from the bread box and place the slices into the toaster.

The CONTAINER SCHEMA:

We conceptualize an enormous number of activities in CONTAINER terms. The container schema (a mental codification of experience that includes a particular organized way of perceiving cognitively) is a spatial-relations concept that all advanced neural creatures impose upon acts of perception and conception.

There is a spatial logic inherent in the container schema; it is axiomatic that given two containers, A and B, and an object, X, if A is in B and X is in A, then X is in B. The container schema like all image schemas can be imposed on what we hear, on what we see, and on our motor movements; such schemas are cross-modal.

The container schema is a fundamental spatial-relations concept that allows us to draw important inferences. This natural container format is the source for our logical inferences that are so obvious to us when we view Venn diagrams. If container A is in container B and B is in container C, then A is in C.

A container schema is a gestalt (a functional unit) figure with an interior, an exterior, and a boundary—the parts make sense only as part of the whole. Container schemas are cross-modal—“we can impose a conceptual container schema on a visual scene…on something we hear, as when we conceptually separate out one part of a piece of music from another…This structure is topological in the sense that the boundary can be made larger, smaller, or distorted and still remain the boundary of a container schema…Image schemas have a special cognitive function: They are both perceptual and conceptual in nature. As such, they provide a bridge between language and reasoning on the one hand and vision on the other.”

The PART-WHOLE Schema:

We conceptualize our self as a whole with parts. Families are conceptualized as a whole with parts. “The general concept of structure itself is a metaphorical projection of the CONFIGURATION aspect of PART-WHOLE STRUCTURE. When we understand two things as being isomorphic, we mean that their parts stand in the same configuration to the whole.”

Basic Logic: If the WHOLE exists then the PARTS exist. The PARTS can exist while the WHOLE may not exist. “We have evolved so that our basic-level perception can distinguish the fundamental PART-WHOLE structure that we need in order to function in our physical environment.”

There are a few more but this gives you an idea of how SGCS (Second Generation Cognitive Science) claims that we structure our reality.

Quotes from “Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal about the Mind” by George Lakoff

Sounds a lot like the Businessman's Creed, or that of a Marine:

Yea, though I walk in the valley of shadows, I fear nothing, cuz I'm the meanest son-of-a-bitch in the valley!

“Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,(I am aware of my temporal state...) I will fear no evil: (I am aware of harm or an ending of my life)for thou art with me;(I am insecure being alone to confront my reality) thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.”--(I rely on a power that will protect my continuance...)

What about people born with disfunctions of senses?

My ignorance of my "place" makes me weak and seek out my place... Compartmentalization works for some and not others... science seeks out the place. The more we learn of our place the less we feel secure about our reality... It is a question of how far is up or down for that matter... as we look into a microscope we see a different place as when we look to the space we have an inability to see the distance to the boundry of our place as it relates to where we are. ;(I am insecure being alone to confront my reality) Is the world viewed through a microscope by another as we view through a microscope at tiny things to "us"? I must relate to my environment, size and location and rely on my absense of knowledge of reality..(I rely on a power that will protect my continuance...)

I look at this message “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.”--Psalm 23:4 in a different sense... I have realized death surrounds me, short of drinking milk I must kill to live and even if I drink milk the milk producer will one day expire. I live with constant death and new birth of life and I'm aware that no matter how careful I live I too will some day expire... thus, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.” I have became self aware of "me" being the spirit or soul inside of the body I occupy and find comfort knowing "me" will go on when I, "the person" expire with "your, God's help".

No one is born with knowledge of having a soul. Had no one told me I wouldn't be aware there was such a thing as a soul. Our basic instincts demand the existence of evil as it appears in the food chain. We are not born compassionate and are by nature combative... we learn from history and personal experiences that being evil is bad and being good is good. In the concept of this message is the concept of a choice of direction of the "me, or soul" where the soul may be directed to good verses evil.

I think people are born with appreciation of art and a desire to project love or appreciation of spirits because it is present in all cultures. The love or appreciation of spirits is based on the realization of temporal condition and the "me" trapped inside talking to me. We are surrounded by death and life separated by time elapsed but the me tells us we are more than the event of life.

It's dysfunctions and they burn in hell!