When you look at something, say, a table, and I asked you to describe it, what would you say?

Probably something along the lines of, "Well it's about 3 feet tall, has four legs, a flat surface, it is made of wood and there is a waterstain over near that corner of it" or something like that.

Ok, so what is a surface? "It is something you can place things on like a cup"

What's a cup? "It's a container used to drink out of"

What is drinking? "It is something we do to satisfy thirst"

Wait, but what's thirst? Satisfy? We?

It goes on like that forever.

If you've noticed, things like cups and drinking and legs and wood are all concepts.

If you had never seen a wooden table before, you could only describe it using existing concepts until someone tells you the name of whatever you are looking at.

"Ah, now it's a table. Before it was undefined but now I know that when legs and wood and surfaces are arranged in that particular way, it is called a table." You have just created a new concept.

Things like tables and cups are pretty easy concepts, but there are also emotions. Happy is a concept. If you didn't have a word for being happy, all it would be is just this light and joyous feeling that puts you in better spirit.

What I'm getting at is that your conciousness is made up entire of concepts and links to other concepts.

You have all sorts of conceptless emotions, however. You might feel a certain way towards Christmas trees but chances are, you don't have a word or concept to describe that specific emotion you hold towards Christmas trees. You can say you like them, or they put you in the holiday spirit, but those concepts are very broad.

You don't really know anything... just lables and how they relate to eachother.

The way we think, operate and perceive the world is very stiff, overgeneralized and limited because all we know are concepts.

Kind of out there, but I believe it. Comments or constructive arguments would be appreciated.