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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Language as a database for thinking: every sentence a key to access a previous thought path, to ground thinking in a quasi-physical space
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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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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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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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