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This is a claim that is constantly repeated in linguistics but that makes little sense. It would be very odd if the brain needed something as ineffective as _la
by dgut 9y ago
This is a claim that is constantly repeated in linguistics but that makes little sense. It would be very odd if the brain needed something as ineffective as _language_ to think. Language is itself a result of our actual ability to think. Most likely we tend to narrate what we think, why the brain does this is unknown to me.
- seszett 9y ago> It would be very odd if the brain needed something as ineffective as _language_ to think. Not that much. I wouldn't be surprised if the invention of human language enabled us to use an improved way of thinking, by serialising thoughts more efficiently or some other kind of mechanism. I don't think I use language most of the time (unless thinking about a discussion specifically, and then it's not always in the same language the discussion will be/was carried in, by the way) but I do write things down when I need to really think about them precisely and it helps a lot.