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Santiago Theory of Cognition
Bringing forth an internal world presents the phenomenon of self-awareness, which is basically described as consciousness in the Santiago theory. Such an internal world provides an explanation for language. Communication is easily described as the exchange of cognitive acts between multiple organisms, but language requires another step: language is communication about communication. Without an internal world capable of referencing previous communications, there is no capacity for language. This explains our use of language, as when we refer to a previous communication ("I tried to hold your hand because I like you!"), we are using language. This explains the creation of objects ("I keep telling you to sit down on that thing, so let's call it the 'blue chair' so that you know what I want you to sit on.") as linguistic distinctions, and as we tease out specific features of such objects, we begin to move into the territory of the abstract.