'(·) on Twitter: "@Plinz @gwern my thoughts were way more nonverbal a few years ago when coming up with new ideas and expressing them was not yet one of my main hobbies, and even now in conversations I often prefer showing a thing to explaining it" / Twitter

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Joscha Bach

@Plinz

Jun 18, 2019

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Yes. It is an acquired taste, and probably emphasized by excessive reading and reflection. I suspect that in our culture, at least 20% of adults don't think with language, and in others it may be more.

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my thoughts were way more nonverbal a few years ago when coming up with new ideas and expressing them was not yet one of my main hobbies, and even now in conversations I often prefer showing a thing to explaining it

8:26 AM · Jun 18, 2019Twitter Web Client

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and I very much enjoy the nonverbal proprioceptive mode one enters when bouldering (or in my case even when writing code, even though I'm pushing words around on the screen)

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