Some people use language in thought more than others. Some don't use language at all. It's certainly time to exit the notion that language is necessary for comp

Some people use language in thought more than others. Some don't use language at all. It's certainly time to exit the notion that language is necessary for complex thought. Thinking the Way Animals Do: Unique insights from a person with a singular understanding. https://www.grandin.com/references/thinking.animals.html https://www.grandin.com/references/thinking.animals.html > A horse trainer once said to me, "Animals don't think, they just make associations." I responded to that by saying, "If making associations is not thinking, then I would have to conclude that I do not think." >I have no language-based thoughts at all. My thoughts are in pictures, like videotapes in my mind. When I recall something from my memory, I see only pictures. I used to think that everybody thought this way until I started talking to people on how they thought. I learned that there is a whole continuum of thinking styles, from totally visual thinkers like me, to the totally verbal thinkers. Artists, engineers, and good animal trainers are often highly visual thinkers, and accountants, bankers, and people who trade in the futures market tend to be highly verbal thinkers with few pictures in their minds.