What happened before humans had formal language? Were we unthinkable, non-humans? Surely we have thoughts even before language or the silent voice kicks in, this is proven regularly by measuring higher forms of intelligence in dogs, chimps, dolphins, even the case of Genie
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Marlon, great points. With humans there is a great work by Julian Jaynes in the Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. It turns out before language we thought the voice in our left hemisphere was the voice of a God. It is a phenomenal read.
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