Language as a database for thinking: every sentence a key to access a previous thought path, to ground thinking in a quasi-physical space
It's clearly possible to have very abstract & long-running thoughts without language. But these thoughts seem impossible to store & recall.
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Clearly if you want to recall a thought, you need to associate it with a "key" that's readily available to your consciousness.
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No man steps into the same river twice. Every time you are recalling a thought, you are recalling a new thought.
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how about prompting recall through nostalgic food memories that evoke thoughts/stories of old friends, likewise music/old toys
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This requires an external perceptual trigger which is typically accidental. Proust's madeleine. That doesn't work as a readily available DB
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Some people like Tesla and Faraday had extraordinary visual thinking and memory abilities. I suggest reading up on what they could do.
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Can we consider that if we remember language as a graph, our memory would be entry point on that graph ?
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Answer me this: Does a mosquito have a mouth? Now introspect on how you knew the answer. Mental imagery is a great knowledge representation.
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I also thought that mental imagery would be key to understand cognition. But amazingly, the mind still works when you're blind from birth.
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Then you are using the wrong recall system.
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