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.
The generalization of such a key-value system: could it be language? A system not for thinking, but to store and recall thought
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Other keys: scents, taste, objects, scenery/location...
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Remarkably, all of these aren't readily available to your self -they are external triggers. Their power of recall also tends to fade quickly
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If the function is to store & recall thought, where does communication & societal relative homogeneity of language enter?
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This leads to 2 killer apps of language: 1) generalizing this recall ability to *other people*, i.e. communication, and 2) external storage
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Which is typically writing, albeit many other forms of storage are of course possible
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Minski describes something similar: Instead of general words, a combination of signals that arouse and restore a state of a set of agents.
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