Thread:User talk:Armondikov/Cognitive-linguistic mapping essay/reply (15)

Except we know for a fact you think without words. Words and communication are a secondary aspect to generating your ideas. That you want to communicate your ideas has to do with them being of quality, or interesting, or whatever, but the language is not necessary for thinking - not even quite complex, highly developed, rational, thinking.

The other thing your topics and many at LW seem to point to, and do not take offense at this, is an aspie's world. Aspies need a level of precision to function that most others do not. It comes with a good side, as it makes them increasingly proficient programmers, interpreters of loads of data, insightful about math.

and ironically, their need for precision in language comes from language being almost "foreign" to their world view. aspies are often such deeply visual thinkers, that they need extra rules to understand how to communicate. and those rules need to be mathatically precise, and cannot come from the human mangling of communication.