I think the idea here is that symbolic language is the tool with which we forge our ideas. To continue with the GPT example, the ideas are not rendered into sy

I think the idea here is that symbolic language is the tool with which we forge our ideas. To continue with the GPT example, the ideas are not rendered into symbolic language only at the point of writing - the ideas are formed in the mind using symbols and then expressed afterwards I see it like this: With no way to represent my thoughts and the context around them succinctly, I would not be able to string various complex ideas together coherently