For those who can’t and don’t think in words this is unsurprising.
How would someone think in words? You mean the words in the pictures or...?
By "hearing" words, sentences, dialogues in their mind. Just like imagining a picture, but audio instead.
Language is not essential for the cognitive processes that underlie thought
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#12I like Temple Grandin's "Thinking the Way Animals Do":
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#13Well it’s important to note that this does not mean that our language does not play a role in shaping our thoughts. “You cannot ask a question you that you have no words for” - Judea Pearl
My cat asks me to go outside. No english words involved of course. She sits and faces the door, meows at it, and paws at the knob. Maybe you can argue they are speaking cat when they ask.
I swear my cat says 好玩儿 hǎowá'er? when he lacks stimulation, which means "Fun?"
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#14Considering that, in 2024, if not a majority, then, still, a vast portion of our consciousness is words. Perhaps not for the illiterate, but for many, much of our knowledge is through the written or spoken word. [Edit: Even a hypothetical person, alone and isolated, never having spoken, would still devise internal language structures, at least for the external realm. ]
Base consciousness is surely not dependent on language, but I suspect base consciousness may be extremely different from what one might expect, so much that compared to what we perceive as consciousness, might seem something close to death.
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#16Is this the death of the Sapir-Whorf theory?
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#20Is this the death of the Sapir-Whorf theory?
Sapir-Whorf is not alive.