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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Other keys: scents, taste, objects, scenery/location...
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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For me, it always seemed to be music - my ability to recall exact situations when a certain song plays is very strange.
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The notion of associativity / graph-like recall of past experiences is one of the oldest ideas in the field...
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I think they can be intentional the same way as language would be to store/recall.
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But I'm thinking of *feelings as being part of *thoughts as well; and you noted "abstract, long-running" thoughts. So never mind.
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