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They're thoughts. That is their form. To use a software analogy, thoughts are the model. English words are one possible serialization. (Other possible seria
by ken 7y ago
They're thoughts. That is their form.
To use a software analogy, thoughts are the model. English words are one possible serialization.
(Other possible serializations include other phrasings of English words, Japanese words, mathematical formulas, drawings, musical notation, and so on.)
It's nonsensical to ask me for a more fundamental form of a thought in my brain. It'd be like having a program where you have a reference to a directed graph in memory, and asking "So what form does this graph take? Like XML, or JSON, or what?" It doesn't have any other form. I could serialize it into one of those forms, if need be, but right now it's just a bunch of connections in memory.
- kharak 7y agoThanks, first explanation about these voiceless thoughts that I could understand. I think I can produce the same voiceless thoughts. But my voiced thoughts are crisp, clear and easily hold in memory compared to other modes of thinking. I wonder, maybe that's why I'm excellent at talking about problems, understanding them at high level, but have so much trouble with acutal engineering.