Emerging consciousness

Like water surrounding aquatics, human beings live in a mediating environment. The main element of this environment is language. Of course, there are other elements, norms, practices, etc., that shape the environment that let us to communicate. Development begins when these elements begin to change. But, the change does not appear spontaneously in minds. Our minds find holes in the mediating environment. The holes that must be filled with our material and intellectual objects. These holes are our needs. According to Hegel, the movement of Subject includes there moments: Universal, Particular and Individual. Though our needs for new concepts are widespread (Universal) they appear somewhere definite, like a painful spot on a skin. Movement of Subject and appearance of a new concept is the product of a population but it appears in one or few minds. Particular is the link between Universal and Individual. Particular may be described as the intellectual environment around the nuclei of new concepts.