Verbatim quote · defining passage

“One’s internal scene of representation is the mental space within which we conceive the meaning of language, as when listening to another or reading a book. Such an individual space, however implemented in our nervous system, must have begun to exist in the originary event itself, or in any case in the memory of those who had participated in the event and its early repetitions.”

— Adam Katz, The Origin of Language · 2020 · Anthropomorphics