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Tokenizing provdies btetre erorr corretcion in case words are misspelled. I very highly doubt that tihsprhsaesicmorephesnilbe.
>I very highly doubt that tihsprhsaesicmorephesnilbe. I read it first as "this phrase is _more_ comprehensible" but knew it wasn't right. Also you spelt "mispelled" incorrectly ;0)>
> Your speculations raise a larger question: Can you think without language? Answer: Nope, at least not at the level humans are accustomed to. Wait, I have a question: by thinking in language, does this mean, that, it's very common for people (in the English speaking world) to think like there was a background voice speaking in your head, like the thinking bubble scenes depicted in movies and sitcoms? As a Chinese, n…
Have you heard about the ideographic myth?
> Your speculations raise a larger question: Can you think without language? Answer: Nope, at least not at the level humans are accustomed to. Wait, I have a question: by thinking in language, does this mean, that, it's very common for people (in the English speaking world) to think like there was a background voice speaking in your head, like the thinking bubble scenes depicted in movies and sitcoms? As a Chinese, n…
I don't think in English as if I was having a conversation with myself. I think the best way to describe it is my brain precaches the words of objects or things or concepts I am thinking about. If I look at the bolts sitting on my table, I don't literally think in my mind 'oh look those are bolts'. I recognize them for what they are, my brain does some processing, and at the same time as my mind is about to wander of…
I often solve problems when thinking about something else - a song, a radio program. THen when I go back to the problem, the solution is clear. Where did that "Thinking" occur? Not in my language buffer, it was fully occupied. In fact in might have been getting the language buffer "out of the loop" that allowed the thinking to occur.
When debugging code, I absolutely DO NOT have an internal dialog going on. I'm paging through code, following definitions, looking at code blocks as a whole, putting the code into some mental space that is not words, then voila! the wrong piece shows up in my mind and I have it.
Language is over-rated.
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I think it is. I've down-voted a couple -4s, but on refresh it still shows -4.
additional thought, after ability to edit had passed: I wonder if it's to intentionally deflate scores which drop to -4. For particularly bad ones, it'd encourage moderators to downvote. Not that I particularly think yours is. Must've rubbed a few the wrong way.
> Your speculations raise a larger question: Can you think without language? Answer: Nope, at least not at the level humans are accustomed to. Wait, I have a question: by thinking in language, does this mean, that, it's very common for people (in the English speaking world) to think like there was a background voice speaking in your head, like the thinking bubble scenes depicted in movies and sitcoms? As a Chinese, n…
http://www.pinyin.info/readings/texts/ideographic_myth.html Have you heard about the ideographic myth?
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I think it is. I've down-voted a couple -4s, but on refresh it still shows -4.
additional thought, after ability to edit had passed: I wonder if it's to intentionally deflate scores which drop to -4. For particularly bad ones, it'd encourage moderators to downvote. Not that I particularly think yours is. Must've rubbed a few the wrong way.
And since HN already discourages one-liners, I think the moral is to quip at your peril!
EDIT: this was meant to be a reply under @shasta.
So isn't that like thinking in text?