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Lera Boroditsky: How Language Shapes Thought

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The Limitations of Language

There's lots of structure in the world that we can discover, even if language doesn't hold those categories. Language is really bad for any kind of spatial things. But there are also lots of qualio-like experiences that are hard to express in language. John Brockman: What do you believe about human language? Jason Asbar: Do you have examples of thoughts or experiences that cannot be expressed in language?

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