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> I have always had trouble understanding why people link verbal thinking and consciousness I came across the same conundrum when I was studying psychology. It all came down to the medium becoming the message. Language is the prime means through which we convey experience. Of course there are other means visual, spacial but when you're "studying consciousness" you're typically reading books. Serious treatise in the a…
I had interesting discussion about logical thinking once. My fried claimed that it's impossible to think logically (btw. etymology of word logic is "word" or "what is spoken") without verbally running the the words and sentences in your head. Then I explained that I have always used logic visuospatially. "and" is choice between places or fork in the road, "or" is combining two objects in the same place and so on. Con…
Re: How Julian Jaynes’ consciousness theory is faring in the neuroscience age (2015)
#91When you see the mathematical phrase "1 + 1" (a trite example, but please substitute something more complex if you like), your reasoning to get the answer is symbolic, but not verbal. That said, I personally have to say the math to myself to "upload" it into my brain, but somebody with more expertise in maths would just have to "see" it.