
Martin Monti, “The Limits of Consciousness” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in Neuroscience
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The Interrelation Between Language and Thought
Unlhess: We have been arguing about this for a long time. Aristotle already has a position that plato does too, on whether ideas exist in our brain or whether we acquire em somehow. People tend to associate these unique things that we can do with another unique aspect of our brain, which is language. So the thoughts you can have, you can only have them because you speak a certain languaged if you spoke a different language, your thoughts wiuld be different. This is an argument that people do very often. But i actually think that ner the world is there, we interact with it through biology and then we use language to express the thought that our brain can have.
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