The Law of Cognition: How Thought Overflows the Mind

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In your book, and I will number eight you have in the book is when thought overflows the mind, the mind puts it in the world. Even if you can't see, you can feel yourself gesturing in space and blind children gesture. They've never seen gesture, they don't know that other people are seeing it and using it, but it's good for them. And then we can see it and we can manipulate it. So once we can externalize thought and see it in a more permanent way, just go away, speech goes away. We do talk to ourselves. But putting it out there in paper, we or even a computer screen,. More simulation, exactly.

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