"As far as consciousness can tell, no sooner do we hear a phrase than all its meanings spring to mind -- yet we have no conscious sense of how those words produce their effects." However, language does play an important role in consciousness. Minsky's first approach to language is to divide the system into three different regions: 1) agents concerned with words; 2) agents concerned with how words engage mental processes; 3) agencies affected by words.
(NB: Right now, I don't see where this is going -- what is the motivation for this separation? How does it relate to other carvings of language, such as syntax vs. semantics?
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