Can We Think without Language?
When I was doing my postgraduate course, I posed a seemingly simple question to my teacher in a Linguistic class: "Can we think without language?" I guess that language has become the sixth sense in differentiating us from animals, birds and plants, despite their being credited with minimal communication efficiency. Language is more rooted in our body than in mind. Humans have been expressing thoughts with language for around a thousand and thousand years. It is the hallmark of human species and also this is the difference between humans and animals. As per an estimation of the number of human language in the world vary between 5,000 and 7,000. Here a quote 'Necessity is the mother of Innovation ' comes to my mind. And we have been wondering about each other's thoughts for as long as we could talk about them. Some people think visually or in colour. It is like a chattering of noise almost but tic is a complex series of ideas and concepts. There...