Seasons

Has anyone else read Helen Keller's autobiography? She talks about the connection between thoughts and words.

I have not. Whats the concept she puts forth?

Basically that thought without words is very limited. She talks about the contrast before and after she learned language.

well, think about how toddlers make more and more associations between things they percieve as they learn more language.

Good point Colonel. It is true that language shapes much of how I think (though I know there are people who visualize more than I do or who think in music or-God help them-code, so they they do not depend on language as much as I). I have to wonder if language always deepens our understanding of the world or if it merely helps us to construct reality in a socially acceptable way.

I have just finished reading I,Cyborg an autobiographical book by Kevin Warwick, who is a professor of robotics. He has done experiemnts using various methods to hook his own nervous system up to transcievers so that he can communicate by sending his thoughts to a computer (and he can recieve various other types of informaition directly into his nervous system). He thinks in the future it will be more efficient to communicate by sending unencrypted signals directly from brain to brain, and that one day language will be obsolete. One of his later experiments involved hooking his wife up to a PC so that they could have "nervous system to nervous system" communications. It worked, and they seemd happy. May I add, his set up was temporary--cos, man,think of the boundry issues! Anyway, it's food for thought.