tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18968172.post8934308452647372266..comments2023-11-03T01:13:22.719-07:00Comments on The Rabbi Is IN with Rabbi Rami: To Press or Not to Press, Is This the Question?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18968172.post-49162143692432291942008-04-22T11:29:00.000-07:002008-04-22T11:29:00.000-07:00Yes, the role of language in thought is what I fin...Yes, the role of language in thought is what I find so fascinating as well. If you lose your capacity to use language, do you lose your capacity to think? And if you do, who are you?Rabbi Ramihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07549679279782491931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18968172.post-28584401991600324092008-04-21T17:03:00.000-07:002008-04-21T17:03:00.000-07:00I think that all this study shows is that our brai...I think that all this study shows is that our brain's linguistic processing (the part that parses thought into words or tangible ideas) is quite slow. We may have already made a decision, but we just haven't verbalized it -- or realized it -- yet.<BR/><BR/>What I find fascinating about this is how much of our self knowledge is based in our ability to describe our thoughts. How we don't consider a decision as having been made (even though it was 7 seconds earlier) until we can put that decision into words. (I love this stuff!)Daniel Srokahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08556040157792829070noreply@blogger.com