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you can talk to yourself in your head using your native language. But that's not evidence that you are thinking in your language, it's thinking of your language
by fsckboy 2y ago
you can talk to yourself in your head using your native language. But that's not evidence that you are thinking in your language, it's thinking of your language. when you do math, are you thinking in your language? when you drive a car or play a video game or a sport, or make love, are you thinking in your language? I'll answer for you, no, you aren't.
Do people who grow up without language (there have been plenty examples, deaf people for example) simply not think? do cats and dogs and chimpanzees not think?
- lolinder 2y agoI don't think we actually disagree on the facts so much as on the buckets we sort them into. I very much count my internal English monologue as thinking in my language and would understand that to be what someone is asking about if they asked what language I think in. At the same time, I totally agree that there are layers to thought that never rise into the monologue.
- drdeca 2y agoThere are kinds of thought which are facilitated by language.
- juliendorra 2y agoThinking is probably not a single unified process, but several simultaneous activities at different levels. Including the unconscious ones. So you might very well both be right, as we may be thinking sometimes simultaneously in language and in other ways (like when we talk and cook, when we write, etc.)