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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat<br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, 17 April, 2022 3:17 PM<br><b>To:</b> ExI chat list <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org><br><b>Cc:</b> William Flynn Wallace <foozler83@gmail.com><br><b>Subject:</b> [ExI] question from quora<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#222222'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>Anton Castleton</b> requested your answer<a href="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" target="_blank"><span class=gmail-m-4437157435740264791renderedqtext><b><span style='font-size:14.5pt;color:#333333;letter-spacing:-.4pt'>Is it possible to learn to think directly in concepts rather than words?</span></b></span></a><a href="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" target="_blank"><b><span style='font-size:14.5pt;color:#333333;letter-spacing:-.4pt'><br></span></b></a><a href="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" target="_blank"><b><span style='font-size:14.5pt;color:#333333;letter-spacing:-.4pt'><br></span></b></a><a href="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" target="_blank"><b><span style='font-size:14.5pt;color:#333333;letter-spacing:-.4pt'>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 w</span></b></a>l<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>