dejasade

i wonder how cave men thought when all the words they had were 'ugg' and 'euurrgh'

not really enough to have a proper lucid thought.

retired_princesspouty

I hope you lot are joking.

dejasade

well you've got to think about it don't you? i mean a japanese person who has never learnt english is not going to think in english.

so a person who was deaf from birth is not going to have learnt oral english so they're not going to think in english.

actually i say that ,they might learn from watching people mouth formations. then the person teaching them will say yeah or no if they get the words right or wrong. but that's it.

retired_princesspouty

I mean the whole 'not comprehending how anyone can think without using language bit'.

It doesn't take a genius to work out that language is a symbolic system (words representing things) and therefore, bereft of language, a person will use something else symbolic that makes sense in terms of their own perception of reality. Probably a similar situation with animals.

We don't always think in words anyway.

San

How does a cat think? I mean, it can't just think "meow meow" all the time can it?

San

Note to self: read thread before posting

retired_heather

cats do not think. they handle according to instincts.

to think is to be able to reason, to philosophize, it's what separates men from animal.

retired_princesspouty

Wrong and wrong tbh.

retired_traci29

surely asking how blind people think is the far more interesting discussion?

Ventil

So when my cat comes in, walks straight over to his bowl and meows loudly, it's just impulse.....