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Like most people, I have something I call an inner voice. I can "hear" ideas in a monologue or sometimes dialogue conversation in my head, such as the words I’m
by jakeinspace 3y ago
Like most people, I have something I call an inner voice. I can "hear" ideas in a monologue or sometimes dialogue conversation in my head, such as the words I’m typing now or when preparing to speak. I don’t believe I’d be able to think abstractly to nearly the degree I am capable of if I wasn’t granted the gift of language by my society, but it is an interesting thought. I’m sure there are mountains of development psychology and linguistic anthropology research on this question. Perhaps we have lost certain abstract reasoning or perception powers that our prehistoric ancestors took for granted, due to language.
- NoMoreNicksLeft 3y agoThis probably isn't obvious to you... but the only ideas you can ever hear that way are the ideas you've already heard elsewhere. That's why "rubber duck programming" seems so cool to some dweebs. It's not that they receive any true insight to it. But it helps them go back over all the other rules that they've learned elsewhere. Likely, it works better for some people than others, because those people have learned more rules. But they'll never discover another new one, or be inspired by some epiphany that way. Hell, I'm pretty sure all of this is implicated in the Flynn Effect. There are a bunch of other implications more disturbing still...