[ExI] question from quora

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Anton Castleton requested your answer <https://www.quora.com/qemail/track_click?al_imp=eyJ0eXBlIjogMzUsICJoYXNoIjogLTQ5MjgyMzg5Mn0%3D&al_pri=1&aoid=Lzhtqx8Vb1m&aoty=2&aty=4&cp=1&ct=1650189000361087&et=103&id=1d540f9eeca9417ca9d25a28e6020ec8&request_id=289&src=1&st=1650189000364682&stories=35369065174&uid=zGWPcMS0Aej&v=0> Is it possible to learn to think directly in concepts rather than words? <https://www.quora.com/qemail/track_click?al_imp=eyJ0eXBlIjogMzUsICJoYXNoIjogLTQ5MjgyMzg5Mn0%3D&al_pri=1&aoid=Lzhtqx8Vb1m&aoty=2&aty=4&cp=1&ct=1650189000361087&et=103&id=1d540f9eeca9417ca9d25a28e6020ec8&request_id=289&src=1&st=1650189000364682&stories=35369065174&uid=zGWPcMS0Aej&v=0> 
 <https://www.quora.com/qemail/track_click?al_imp=eyJ0eXBlIjogMzUsICJoYXNoIjogLTQ5MjgyMzg5Mn0%3D&al_pri=1&aoid=Lzhtqx8Vb1m&aoty=2&aty=4&cp=1&ct=1650189000361087&et=103&id=1d540f9eeca9417ca9d25a28e6020ec8&request_id=289&src=1&st=1650189000364682&stories=35369065174&uid=zGWPcMS0Aej&v=0> 
 <https://www.quora.com/qemail/track_click?al_imp=eyJ0eXBlIjogMzUsICJoYXNoIjogLTQ5MjgyMzg5Mn0%3D&al_pri=1&aoid=Lzhtqx8Vb1m&aoty=2&aty=4&cp=1&ct=1650189000361087&et=103&id=1d540f9eeca9417ca9d25a28e6020ec8&request_id=289&src=1&st=1650189000364682&stories=35369065174&uid=zGWPcMS0Aej&v=0> Cognitive is not my field.  What do you think?  Or perhaps, how.  I tried thinking of geometric figures but the words kept popping up in my mind.   bill wl

 

 

 

 

 

Of course.  I can think of a coupla good examples that do not go thru words at all.  An instrumentalist hears a jazz lick that he likes, plays it back with trimmings on his own horn.  No words are spoken.  A chess player plays over a game by a couple of grandmasters, learns come cool tricks, no words there.  A mechanical engineer takes a machines apart, sees how it works, fixes it, thinks of ways to improve it, no words at all.

 

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