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Originally Posted by lemit
I think that language, like law, results from experience. I believe that it facilitates thought, but not on the level of food-gathering. I was thinking and remembering before I learned language. ...
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I am very curious to know just what do you mean by "thinking" before you had language. What were you thinking? How did you remember it without creating a "story" of what happened?
We know that much of our memory is composed of linear sequences of sensory "images". (I include smell and pain, etc, in this broad use of "images".) We all have multitudes of these "image-clips" in our brains. But merely recalling them (remembering) is not what I would call "thinking".
"Thinking" involves, at even the most primitive level, the assignment of "meaning" to a memory. And meaning is constructed entirely out of the elements of language -- what I have called elsewhere, "syntactic structures".
