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To: FITZ
Language and words are just one form of expression

And that is the problem. All languages depend upon a learning period of its components. The less knowledge one has of a language, the more limited the ability to communicate. You may have a perfect thought, but due to your limited understanding of your language, the less likely you are to communicate you thought. If you were telepathic, you could communicate your perfect thought and the person with whom you were communicating, would completely understand.

117 posted on 05/23/2003 8:57:47 PM PDT by fifteendogs
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To: fifteendogs
I don't know about telepathy but I know there have been times I started thinking about a family member I hadn't spoken with for some time and decided to call them but sitting down to make the call, and instead the phone rang and it was the same person I was about to call. I guess there are logical explanations for that kind of thing ---maybe some forgotten trigger like the date of some kind of anniversary --in the unconscious mind. Language is very useful of course but I think all of us think and reason without words. One thing I think is interesting is if you take a computer programming class or something else that requires reason ---and you decide to sleep on a problem, suddenly at night the solution comes to you ---and it happened in some part of your brain but didn't require conscious waking thought.
124 posted on 05/23/2003 9:09:26 PM PDT by FITZ
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