[Paracelsus]

Language is the tool by which we are able to articulate our thoughts, this is not to deny the body as a totality and the affect that emotional or affective states experienced by the body have upon our mind. And should we believe that consciousness resides only in the mind?

Are feelings the consciousness of the body?( this could be new thread?)

If we perceive that perception is a function of the body which then allows the brain, does mind reside in the brain?, to formulate a response to both external stimulus and internal states then Being is both a state and an act.

Foucault stated that discourse constitutes its object, and if language is a function of being then the act of engaging in discursive practice enables being to be expressed and defined by its acts.

I have not studied Heidegger, Sein und Ziet its something on my current to do list, and correct me if i am wrong, but didn't he state that (our) Being is only recognised by the recognition/acknowledgement of other Being's?

But this i would imagine raises another question is being a function of Self? And if that is the case how then do we define Self?