Does anyone actually think with words?

[Deleted member 21182]

It’s a question I get asked a lot when someone sees me drifting. what’s going through ur head?

But how can I describe it with words?

I don’t think with words it’s had to say how I think but i just do and it makes sense to me the things I think about can’t be reduced to words

Like does anyone actually talk to themselves in their head I feel like words are very limiting when it comes to thinking

I’m the kind of guy who has constantly racing thoughts in my head yet too complex to describe with words

 

[Deleted member 21182]

I always thought that was more of a movie thing to translate thought to the viewers but someone told me they do think with words and I was mindblown since I only ever lived with my head

 

[Deleted member 21345]

This is a long standing meme on Twitter. It's called wordcels vs shape rotator

Wordcels think well, with words and shape rotators think spatially and in abstract concepts. Supposedly shape rotators are smarter in actuality but wordcels come across as smarter

 

[Deleted member 21182]

This is a long standing meme on Twitter. It's called wordcels vs shape rotator

Wordcels think well, with words and shape rotators think spatially and in abstract concepts. Supposedly shape rotators are smarter in actuality but wordcels come across as smarter

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Never even knew apperantly there’s two types

I only realised this yesterday when someone asked what I was thinking and I said I can’t describe it then bla bla I asked how they think and they said they think with words, never knew that was a thing tbh seems strange to Unironically talk to urself in ur head when u can limitlessly think with feelings and such things words can’t really capture

 

[horizontallytall]

True , very very great concept , most actual high iq people i see have a very limited way of explaining themselves but with time they actually learn, its always people who speak too eloquently that are actual mid in terms if life quality, @Aloha

 

[shabby890]

This is a long standing meme on Twitter. It's called wordcels vs shape rotator

Wordcels think well, with words and shape rotators think spatially and in abstract concepts. Supposedly shape rotators are smarter in actuality but wordcels come across as smarter

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What part if twitter do you get this shit from

 

[Sprinkles]

I think to myself in words and talk to myself in my head all he time

i cant fathom not using words to describe things

doesnt make any sense

 

[Deleted member 21182]

I think to myself in words and talk to myself in my head all he time

i cant fathom not using words to describe things

doesnt make any sense

I use 0 words

The only time I actually use words is if I’m reimagining a specific interaction with someone that spoke to me

Other than that 0

Interesting to see that different humans have such different working minds

 

[Deleted member 21345]

What part if twitter do you get this shit from

Right wing twitter in general but specifically lesswrong/rationalism/philosophy side of it is into this

 

[Deleted member 21182]

doesnt make any sense

but actually in my opinion thinking without words while it does make it hard to explain to someone what ur thinking about is quite literally limitless

U can literally think out of the box

That’s the same thing my gf does she thinks with words and she can’t understand how I can’t explain my thoughts

They are just too complex to turn into a sentence

 

[shabby890]

Right wing twitter in general but specifically lesswrong/rationalism/philosophy side of it is into this

Bronze Age Pervert type place?

 

[Deleted member 21345]

Bronze Age Pervert type place?

Exactly. Idk if you know logo daedalus but he is literally the archetype of a wordcel and got dog piled for being one constantly

 

[shabby890]

Exactly. Idk if you know logo daedalus but he is literally the archetype of a wordcel and got dog piled for being one constantly

 

[Deleted member 21345]

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Lol no one realized that was a Schopenhauer quote

 

[shabby890]

Lol no one realized that was a Schopenhauer quote

I have a feeling his fans don't read that much