At 01:21 PM 8/15/2002 +0100, Mark Tiller wrote: >I'm going to have to disagree with Steven, Language is NOT how we think, >it's how we communicate. We think at the subconcious level in the >Pictures, Sounds and Feelings at least that's how memory is organised. I do not believe that can be called "thinking" as the term is usually understood. It is certainly not cognition. Remember that a great deal besides thinking goes on in the brain. In the case of my dog--well, but that's another issue. Certainly, not all thinking takes place in our native language (although obviously a great deal does). >We may CHOOSE at the concious level to verbalise our thoughts, it's good >if we are trying to follow a logic chain. But thinking in pictures is >much faster as in a picture's worth a thousand words. I have often closed my eyes and called up a pleasing picture. That is not thinking, that is exercising my memory. If I make conclusions about that picture, such as, "I'd like to go back to that beach," or, "I wonder what she's up to today?" I am thinking. But sometimes--often--those pictures merely call up emotion, they bring with them feelings. That is *feeling* it is not *thinking*. God, this is fun!