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I don't think you can evaluate if that's true by reading books by people in the past. There are a lot of different states of mind which are consistent with the
by tw1010 8y ago
I don't think you can evaluate if that's true by reading books by people in the past. There are a lot of different states of mind which are consistent with the same output. I mean, just think about how many people with wildly different states of mind (schizophrenic, autism) today who can write books which are indistinguishable from books by "normal" people.
- akvadrako 8y agoI think you can assume most people write characters that think somewhat like they do. And is it true that schizophrenic and autistic authors do write the same?
- tw1010 8y agoThere are a lot of people who don't think verbally, who nevertheless manage (because they have to, because that's basically the only channel we have) to share their ideas using language (in an indistinguishable way from people who do think with words). Some people think with sounds, some are primarily visual thinkers, some are informed by their emotions. I don't think it's infeasible that there are other ways of thinking (or other states of consciousness), which nevertheless have the capacity to produce the same type of output, in terms of writing, as what we with our consciousness produce today.