Re: Mind's Eye The language of thinking

I suppose dance would be like body language. You raise a very interesting point for me about music Gabby. Sometimes when I am in the right frame of mind, I can think of music and I am able to hear (in my mind)  the music, hearing all the notes being played in detail. At those times, when I think of music with lyrics, I can hear (in my mind) the words of the song even though I can not remember the words normally. Kind of strange. Has anyone else experienced that? I suppose it is a kind of photographic memory retrieval.   But what I meant to discuss in this post is that if I want to think about the music or about the dance... maybe to critique it or to analyze it, I find that I can not do that without articulating the thoughts in my mind with words. I wonder if others have found the same thing.

On Sunday, January 6, 2013 4:41:53 PM UTC+1, Gabby wrote:

This is indeed a very, very complex topic worth discussing and simplifying. Help me understand what you are aiming at by telling me whether music and dance would also account for languages of thinking. Thanks.

2013/1/6 andrew vecsey <andrew...@gmail.com>

I have written a new chapter to my "Think Park - A Journey thru space and time" publication/video that made me think more about thinking. Whenever I think, I seem to be talking to myself, I can think about something in my memory by imagining and reliving sensations I remember, but whenever I think about those memories, I ultimately revert to talking to my self (up to now, fortunately silently). Do others in this group of thinkers have the same experience? If yes, why do you think that it is like that? If not, how do you manage to think without mentally talking it out? The excerpt of my new chapter that started me thinking about this line of thought is below:

"Before men could talk, they groaned and grunted.  Just like with crying and laughing, it was sometimes difficult to tell the difference between displays of sorrow and joy, or pain and pleasure.  At the 60 meter point from the start of the think park, about 18,000 years ago, man started to use words to display his emotions. Words helped man to think and enabled him to articulate and share his inner most thoughts.  Pictures and written words enabled his thoughts and his knowledge to be stored for later contemplation and to be scattered like seed to grow.  This cultivation, communication and sharing of thoughts, knowledge and experience resulted in the growth of agriculture that enabled civilizations to flourish."

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