Is it possible to think without language?
Seemingly, thoughts are embedded in humans but in my opinion, the thoughts embedded in humans are just impressions, emotions, moods...
Every time I talk to myself (in my mind), I am using language unless it is a irrational thought such as rage or joy, but the truth is I don't know if I am really thinking in those cases.
Thinking requires concepts and sometimes, we link imagens with concepts as when we have a picture in our mind about a particular place but we don't remenber where it was. But they are simple thoughts and if we want to think about something complicated as how we are going to pay every debt we have, in my opinion, our mind isn't prepared to link good enough imagenes with concepts our to understand these concepts by itself.
So, it is sure we need language to develope our society though thoughts but it is because our minds are not too smart to understand concepts without language or our minds are so smart as for creating languages that allow us to describe the concepts.
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