
Martin Monti, “The Limits of Consciousness” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in Neuroscience
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Do You Think Differently in One Language or Another?
Ino: I have all sorts of s these thoughts are independent of language. And then they come out in different languages. O ow, i actually am somewhat of a different person. Somehow the language moulds and affects my my thoughts. We can now get some sense of qualification of what's happening by looking at these structures that you talk about,. Looking at these hierarchies. So tell me more about specifically, ah, you make an analogy between arithmetic and the structure of language; how you go looking for these sorts of things? Sure, what you actually do a very simple example that i actually have used in a slightly more elaborate form. But to look at this, think of the sentence
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