Language and Thought (and implications for subs)

[timc2011]

I was f***ing off at work the other day, and I came across an article that gave support to the Sapir-Worf hypothesis (the whole thing about language structuring thought, example always given that Eskimos/Inuit language have 14 words for snow and thereby have a far deeper appreciation for snow than yours truly yada yada). I'd learned that this had been debunked time and again, and that it's been revisited as a serious topic only this decade.

I can't find the article in question, but I thought it might have some application generally to the next generation of subs. What I was reading suggested that this appeared to feature as a right brain phenomenon (for lack of a better term, but the unconscious was implied). This is interesting, because language is typically considered a "left brain" phenomenon (chiefly), albeit that obviously information is routinely exchanged. My take by a leap is that subs can impart certain targeted changes in individuals as inputs (or impulses) as they have to be simply expressed. The real conditioning is "in the field," where someone acting on the newly imparted "basic instincts" and perceptual shifts receives "pings" back from the crowd, hoping for positive reinforcement, and adapts/adopts a new personality, manifests whatever.

I've only given the following (best I could find on the topic): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4628110/

I've kind of a background in this (related subject, anyway), and this is a pretty heavy read. Still, thought it might be of interest to some and might have some application to future subs here and people's approaches to using them.