if 'inner speech turns into thought', can there be thought without language?
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Dreams are thoughts.  Often those are pictures and sounds more than they are language.  So I say yes there can be thought without language.
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No because it would have free thinking.
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I believe that you have a mental confusion.  I do not require thoughts in order to perceive.  Also thoughts can be controlled through discipline of the mind.  This has been recorded for several centuries.\n\nThe human mind is a tool.  Thoughts are the results of using this tool.  If the tool is not required, then the mind can be shut off.  Just because you may not be able to do this does not make this a Universal condition.\n\nYes, you can control thoughts.  Yes, with training or discipline, you can stop it, mold it, shape it or do anything with it.
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Yes. Man had to have intelligence first before there could be literacy. \n\nIntelligence is having a high degree of mental capacity and expressing good judgment and sound thought. \n\nIlliteracy simply means having little or no education, being unable to read or write.\n\nThere are many ways one can learn in addition to reading and writing, therefore I believe a person can be capable of intelligent conversation and abstract thinking without having had an education.
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Honestly, the deepest thought I can think of is Nothing. Seriously, close your eyes and try to envision nothing. Most likely, the colour black or white will pop into your mind, as if those 'blank slates' are nothing. But even blank slates are somethings...and if you really think about it, even Nothing is Something. What would True Nothingness be? And if you could ever actually think of it, would you ever be able to resume thinking thoughts again, or would the Nothingness be vacuous like a mental black hole?
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Yes.  The human mind is just an incredibly complex computer which can manufacture it's own connections.  All we need to do is get the software and hardware sides of our current technology up to the level of our brains and beyond...  Easier said than done, I know.
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If you saying things like "I think that whatever is a crime" Turn them into statements like  "Whatever is a crime". You don't need the I think because that just makes it should like you unsure of yourself.
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Yes.  It is  a structured linguistic process.  Grammar is the form of the structure, I think.  If you were speaking of an evolutionary process the answer is still yes, but the form of the structure is neurological.  Disordered thought, as in schizophrenic "word salads", clearly count as language, but are unstructured, but this is an anomaly.
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DO YOU MEAN THOUGHTLESSNESS?
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For one you dont need to be able to hear to think, and thats what you essentially do when your talking inside your head.  Secondly your thoughts while you dream are not connected to your sense of sight.  From what I have heard your brain is wired to allow people to see what they dream, the one thing different would be that what those people see in their dreams wouldnt be influenced by what they see in the outside world
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I think you make some interesting points - words definitely have limitations for the definer and the interpretter.  Its always a rhetoric game and only real thieves hide behind definitions to justify their actions.  As for morality - this is not a truth - it is a social norm - and each society determines what is or isn't moral based on their level of consciousness.  As long as we are trapped in words - we are limiting our consciousness.
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"Without even knowing a word". Reread what you said and really ask yourself, do you honestly assume that deaf people do not know the written language?   Do you really think they stay at home throughout their entire childhood years not learning how to read, write, learn math, science, history, and so on like you do too? Do you think that they can learn all those things without reading the words in the textbooks? Regardless of the fact that some deaf people sign only in ASL, we all still have to learn English anyways in order to read and write and get an education. The real truth is that deaf people are BILINGUAL. Many learn both ASL and English. (Some only learn English and never ASL if they grew up in the oral method which is myself.) \n\nThe mind is not only limited to sign language. It can communicate in the written language as well. The mind does not need the vocal cords in order to think thoughts in words like a spoken language. It varies among deaf people. One would probably like signing to themselves when they think and talk to themselves. I've seen it occur. I am sure that for some, they sign to themselves in their minds or use a mixture of both words and signs. Some may mostly use words in an an expression of "Deaf English" which is not as perfect as English based on the sounds that we do not hear.\n\nI'll give you an example, I'm sure one who only signs strictly in ASL mainly would probably think "me store" or "me need store" if they're thinking about going to the store because that is how you say it in ASL. You would think "I need to go to the store". I always think in English like you do because that is my main mode of communication and expression. Even though I may be fluent in ASL, but I do not think in sign.\n\nI do not learn new words auditorally like you do. I learn them by reading it first and then learning how to pronounce it. Either someone would tell me how to pronounce it or I would look it up in the dictionary and it would describe the pronunciation. However, if I have no idea how it is properly pronounced, I just do my best to guess it. I'm pretty good at guessing the pronunciations because I love reading and have been speaking all my life. I've always been very good at English than the average person. So my mind would speak the words that it guesses what it would sound like.
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Language is a vital tool. Not only is it a means of communicating thoughts and ideas, but it forges friendships, cultural ties, and economic relationships. \n\nThroughout history, many have reflected on the importance of language. For instance, the scholar Benjamin Whorf has noted that language shapes thoughts and emotions, determining one’s perception of reality. John Stuart Mill said that "Language is the light of the mind." \n\nFor the linguist Edward Sapir, language is not only a vehicle for the expression of thoughts, perceptions, sentiments, and values characteristic of a community; it also represents a fundamental expression of social identity. Sapir said: "the mere fact of a common speech serves as a peculiar potent symbol of the social solidarity of those who speak the language." In short, language retention helps maintain feelings of cultural kinship.\n\nLanguage is an expression of identity and cultural heritage.  Everywhere there is a human society, there is human language. All languages are based on a similar plan and complexity of language bears no relation to complexity of the culture.
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Yes.  Simple thoughts may not produce anything, but heavy concentration can yeild some surprising results.  I believe that long ago, man was attuned to this phenomenon and "magic" may have actually existed.  Over eons of time, this ability has gradually been purged from us from witchcraft trials and disuse and ultimately disbelief that such acts are possible.
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Fish brains don't have much of a prefrontal cortex. It would be hard for the them to "think" as we know it. Much less think about something long enough to develop self-awareness.
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Language shapes the way you think. It is what sets man apart from the other animals. It is the glue that holds society together because without communication there is no society. \n\nI'm not sure what angle you are asking from, but those are my thoughts.
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If they're speaking in gibberish, they're not speaking in tongues.\nOtherwise, yes, that's what I'd think.