I refer you to AN ARTICLE MY jamali et al in nature, vol 631, 18 july 2024, entitled “Semantic Encoding during language comprehension at single-cell resolution.” the authors state the following: “from sequences of speech sounds or letters, humans can extract rich and nuanced meaning through language.”
in my writings i have addressed this capacity at length. the authors state that “the derivation of linguistic meaning in neural tissue at the cellular level and over the timescale of action potentials remains largely unknown.” it is this point which i have addressed over time in my writings. they continue to state that there is “a fine-scale cortical representation of semantic information by individual neurons. . . . we also show how they encoded the hierarchical structure of these meaning representations and how these representations mapped onto the cell population.”
i am identifying this particular article because it shows how the action potentials transmitted by neuronal networks (in this case by single cells) are encoded semantically. According to the authors, their “results therefore together suggested that these cell ensembles encoded richly detailed information about the hierarchical semantic relationship between words. . . . these findings reveal a highly detailed representation of semantic information within prefrontal cortical populations, and a cellular process that could allow the meaning of words to be accurately decoded in real time during speech.”
what i do not see in their article is the role of the immaterial mind in this process, though mention is made of “comprehension” without defining how and where it occurs. i submit that it is the mind which interprets the semantic neural codes, dynamic as they are as the authors point out. no mention of memory archived within neural networks is made which the mind accesses in establishing context to meanings.
I do recommend this article with elaborate methodology and on the forefront of learning how semantic communication occurs. It is my hope that my writings shed some light on this complex topic.