timtyler comments on Thinking without words?

timtyler 10 Jul 2011 1:03 UTC
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I’m not at all convinced that developing ways of “thinking without words” is at all productive.

I have the opposite testimony. The brain is very visual. Audio processing has pretty narrow bandwidth by comparison. It pays to use your brain’s GPU.
- nazgulnarsil 11 Jul 2011 0:44 UTC
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  language is conceptual and not auditory reliant.
  - timtyler 11 Jul 2011 9:23 UTC
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    It is all tied in with audio processing. That is why language is serial, for instance.
    - nazgulnarsil 11 Jul 2011 9:31 UTC
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      reading is serial too. I don’t actually have any expertise in this area but it seems like hearing and language shouldn’t necessarily involve the same part of the brain.
- Houshalter 13 Apr 2015 8:12 UTC
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  By your logic deaf people taught sign language should be geniuses. Language is entirely separate from audio processing, that’s just how we communicate.