I always wondered if it's possible to think without having learnt a language to put the thoughts into words. Sometimes I catch myself speaking nonsense in my in

I always wondered if it's possible to think without having learnt a language to put the thoughts into words. Sometimes I catch myself speaking nonsense in my inner monologue—the sentences are grammatically correct, but it feels like I'm just putting words next to each other in a way that's similar to GPT (next token prediction) while my attention is actually elsewhere. Edit: The paper linked in the article disagrees with me: https://archive.is/lpfDW https://archive.is/lpfDW