259. Ogi Ogas — Journey of the Mind: How Thinking Emerged from Chaos
The Michael Shermer Show
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Can't I Have an Inner Life Without Words?
There are people who don't have language, a brain damage or whatever, and surely they haven't inturn. They haven't an internal selfada lived experience in there. So let me say two things to that. First, i would disagree. There's pretty strong evidence that human children that are raised without language, if later you get brain damage, very different story,. But if you raise a child without language, famous example is a young girl named jeanie that was locked in a crib for, i think, 11 or 12 years without any human contact, never heard e human words spoken. Her father was psycotic. Whenever he near acted with her, he bark
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