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<blockquote data-quote="Crimson Longinus" data-source="post: 9615406" data-attributes="member: 7025508"><p>I was thinking about this a while ago, when I read or heard people discussion about what language they think in. And that seemed weird to me. Like sure, I can think in "inner speech" and if I do it is in some language. But that is just when I am thinking about how to express something. Like when I though about how to respond in this post I though in words, and it was in English even though that's not my native language, as that's the language I'd need to use to write here. </p><p></p><p>But most of my thoughts, I don't believe they're words. Sometimes thoughts are visual, but like [USER=7033171]@Retros_x[/USER] excellently puts it, most of the time thoughts are just thoughts, pure concepts. And to me it is wild that this is not how everyone does it. Like surely words are merely things we use to communicate the concepts, but they're not the concepts themselves? I wonder if there is relationship with this words being seen as the same thing than concepts and being monolingual? Like if you speak several languages, it is rather obvious that the words are merely representations of concepts rather than concepts themselves, but if you only speak one language that might be less obvious... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f914.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":unsure:" title="Unsure :unsure:" data-smilie="24"data-shortname=":unsure:" /> </p><p></p><p>But some people thinking purely in words also explains some wild opinions I've sometimes seen about animal intelligence. Like I've seen people doubt animal capability to think and reason because they have no language, and that always seemed weird to me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Crimson Longinus, post: 9615406, member: 7025508"] I was thinking about this a while ago, when I read or heard people discussion about what language they think in. And that seemed weird to me. Like sure, I can think in "inner speech" and if I do it is in some language. But that is just when I am thinking about how to express something. Like when I though about how to respond in this post I though in words, and it was in English even though that's not my native language, as that's the language I'd need to use to write here. But most of my thoughts, I don't believe they're words. Sometimes thoughts are visual, but like [USER=7033171]@Retros_x[/USER] excellently puts it, most of the time thoughts are just thoughts, pure concepts. And to me it is wild that this is not how everyone does it. Like surely words are merely things we use to communicate the concepts, but they're not the concepts themselves? I wonder if there is relationship with this words being seen as the same thing than concepts and being monolingual? Like if you speak several languages, it is rather obvious that the words are merely representations of concepts rather than concepts themselves, but if you only speak one language that might be less obvious... :unsure: But some people thinking purely in words also explains some wild opinions I've sometimes seen about animal intelligence. Like I've seen people doubt animal capability to think and reason because they have no language, and that always seemed weird to me. [/QUOTE]
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