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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The generalization of such a key-value system: could it be language? A system not for thinking, but to store and recall thought
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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What about visual or auditory store/recall? Music?
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Is "generalizing to others" actually instantiating a serialized thought in other mind? Not recall if they never thought it before.
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