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Originally posted by schrodingers dog
But if you really think about it, as far as the mind goes, it is unable to process any information for which it has no word.
Originally posted by loam
reply to post by schrodingers dog
Do infants not process thought then?
Originally posted by schrodingers dog
I am only saying that insofar as processing sensory input, the brain can only do it in verbal terms. How it chooses to communicate that does not have to be verbal.
Thoughts happen in a verbal context, but thought are but one part of the brain.
Does that make sense?
Remember when you first learned to drive. You had to be told, shift, clutch, pedal etc. Then you learned other concepts like rpms and rolling backwards on hills. At first you had to THINK. "now, shift now at that horrible sound" But once you had practiced...it became HABIT.
Originally posted by schrodingers dog
reply to post by mapsurfer_
I really believe that the next evolutionary step for humanity is the shedding of language, though we're rushing to it. There is so much of our brains that remains unused and unexplored, but we're stuck at the at the most basic levels of knowledge and communication. The mind is an extraordinary tool, but it must be still to make use of it efficiently. In a seeming paradox, the more you stop thinking, the better it works.
This is not true for all cases.
Originally posted by LastOutfiniteVoiceEternal
reply to post by FadeToBlack
I think what the Title of the O.P. is really meant to intend is that there is a word for every feeling, emotion, concept and image. But all of those must be as one, because for some words alone there are only concepts and no images.
During the first year of life, exchanges and communication between a mother and her infant are exclusively preverbal and are based on the mother's ability to understand her infant's needs and feelings (i.e., empathy) and on imitation of the infant's facial expressions; this promotes a social dialog that influences the development of the infant self.