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> Language is the serialization format for abstract concepts. For you maybe, but some people work with images only and most people use a mix of language and im
by autisticimagery 12y ago
> Language is the serialization format for abstract concepts.
For you maybe, but some people work with images only and most people use a mix of language and images. Autistic people tend to work exclusively with images, or exclusively with words. Some also use music or numbers. You don't need to speak any audible language to invent or understand things. Your own internal language is enough. You'll just be so isolated that you're unlikely to be understood by the masses, that's all.
- gravity13 12y agoWhether or not autistic people use imagery is irrelevant, he said "language is the serialization," not "for everybody the only way they think of abstract concepts is via serialization with language."
- nitrogen 12y ago> > Language is the serialization format for abstract concepts. > For you maybe, but some people work with images only and most people use a mix of language and images. There must be some variation across the population in this regard (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5256057 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5256057). Though I can think in images, concepts, words, sounds, smells, and tastes, I've said before on HN that my thoughts don't seem "official" until they've been serialized as a stream of words (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5256126 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5256126).