
Steven Pinker on Rationality, Psychology, Language, & More
The Origins Podcast with Lawrence Krauss
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Can You Think Without Language?
You can definitely think without language. You do when you think you don't internalize words. Well, you have snatches. You use stretches of sound as short-term memory representations. If you did, writing would not be a slog. It would just be output and struggling for what words actually express my thought. We know that from studies of non-human animals, that animals can solve problems, they can recognize things. Just build technology.
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