All things began as ‘practicals’

All things began as ‘practicals’ only for us to theorize and put them in hypotheticals in academe; never the opposite. One example is language. We think it is a self-sufficient structure when in fact it is a vast chaos, only to get its formality when finally studied. Language is a phenomenon; it just happened. It is for this reason that it is difficult to study a second language, because it is not all in the head. (See the paper titled ‘The External Mind.’) Krashen, Chomsky, and other SLA experts say it is acquisition, an spontaneously taking-place process that an individual isn’t conscious of. Others think it is about developing an instinct for the language first before jumping into the theories.

Given the above, we humans are more accustomed to practicing things first before putting them in the head; and in this putting, even, we unconsciously do it. Maybe it is so because we came a long way from evolution that our ancestors lived off the land and the seas first in their most rudimentary ways, barbaric nature, and uncivil practices, before finally gaining consciousness of everything under the sun.