I finally got around to reading a short essay about language and the unconscious by Cormac McCarthy - The Kekule Problem, Where did Language Come From? - that I bookmarked ages ago. I didn't realise Mccarthy dabbled in sciences.
I find some of these types of essays can be a bit unsettling - really fucking smart peope with the ability to have perspectives that are quite challenging.
The whole website has some interesting essays .
The Kekule Problem - Nautilus
Just as we dont know how it is that we manage to talk. If I am talking to you then I can hardly be crafting at the same time the sentences that are to follow what I am now saying. I am totally occupied in talking to you. Nor can some part of my mind be assembling these sentences and then saying them to me so that I can repeat them. Aside from the fact that I am busy this would be to evoke an endless regress. The truth is that there is a process here to which we have no access. It is a mystery opaque to total blackness.