But, Einstein had to be able to think in language (be it English, German or mathematics) to convey his pictures to the "language thinking" world".
I would think most people do some thinking in non-language ways such as remembered smells, tastes, noises and sights. Some of these non-language thoughts probably defy translation to traditional languages.
Imagine the Autistic who cannot covey his hunger, thirst or boredom to the speaking world.
Methinks this author's mental machinations are aimed at making irrelevant the very qualities that make man superior to the lesser (very un-PC) animals.
Virtually everyone thinks in pictures. The confusion comes from two sources, in my opinion. (1)Some people make the transfer to words so rapidly, that they believe--erroneously--that they are actually thinking in words. Yet even as fast as these people make the transfer, the process is still enormously slower than working with the images without the words.
(2)Since we all require words to communicate with other people, even those who verbalize more slowly, still fall into the trap of trying to make the transfer into words as rapidly as they are able. Thus they still stultify their perception.
Generally, women make the transfer more rapidly than men. Most women are, in fact, unable to even realize that they are making a transfer, and will actually argue that they don't. One of the effects of this 'faster on the draw verbalization' that anyone can notice is at a party, where if the girls are keyed up, and not deliberately frustrating the tendency--as old fashioned Moms would have taught them to do--the guys have difficulty getting a word in. (I have always believed that this phenomenon was behind the proper Victorian tendency to divide the sexes, after a dinner, into separate rooms--whether or not cigars were the excuse.)
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