Vision and Evolution (A Critique of Dawkins)

[GrandizerII]

The brain receives those soundwaves and interprets them according to what it has learned in life. If the soundwave patterns match how the English language has been learned by the brain, then the brain would interpret them as meaningful words/phrases/sentences in English.

There's such a thing as top-down processing as well. Remember that in cognitive psychology? Regarding the audio, that's easy. It's called priming. Remember that as well?

And yeah, ok, it's not just soundwaves. It's written words as well that are visually received by the brain.

Right, but top-down processing is why speaking of English in physical terms is problematic. English is an interpretation supplied by the brain, not the environment; thus why we are able to extract or supply meaning from noise.

English is taught, man. This isn't rocket science. There's the neuronal/physiological aspect of English communicating and there's the environmental aspect.