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>The truth is that we all think in an undefinable mental language and our common language is an abstraction of that layer.

That's a very big assertion without substantial experimental backing - care to provide some?

Even just defining "think" sounds hard to me.



> Even just defining "think" sounds hard to me.

Well, to 'think' in the OP's article context means to think about. Think about fish, it swims, think about cars, it moves. The replies are more about 'information processing' and 'innovative reasoning'. So people often can not find the correct word for an abstract idea. The human brain stores a huge namespace of world view and knowledge, sometimes the natural languages are not enough to decode and describe its complexity.




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