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Our thoughts, as we experience them, are usually in a form of an inner monologue, and very much like talking it's always in some particular language. Based on t
by ivanhoe 10y ago
Our thoughts, as we experience them, are usually in a form of an inner monologue, and very much like talking it's always in some particular language. Based on that I'd suspect, if telepathy was possible, that it would still be very closely bound to the language that you use to verbalize your thoughts.
- gliese1337 10y agoNot for everyone. People who "think in language" tend to be more common, but there are "people who think in language" and people who just don't. And people in either camp tend to assume that that's just how everyone is, until they are shown different. But since the "think in language" camp is larger, it is a lot easier to go through life not ever realizing that there are people who are different, to the point that many people even refuse to belief that non-linguistic thinkers exist even when presented with examples, which leads to a great deal of misinformation being spread in discussions of psycholinguistics.
- SAI_Peregrinus 10y agoYour thoughts may always be in a language. I tend to have images more than words.