What is the nature of deafblind people's and animals' thoughts?
1diggnews: Mz - the imagery-rich manner of some peoples thinking style does not preclude utterance as the main mode of thought; for example dyslexic people seem to have serious issues with "abstract" terms, such as "the", versus nouns/verbs and thus many say they are "visual thinkers": but verb/noun utterance could go a long way. You should ask your son if he has an "utterance style" while he thinks, and let us know.Arun2009 - when you simulate speaking you should have utterance, one imagines, how about if you are thinking about something else. Code. Math. etc.I expect that most thought is on several levels - emotional, "intuition" (e.g. nonconcsious thought processes), and then image/verbal(utterance) or other notation. For me I have lots of "low level" emotional/intuitive feelings/thoughts and then more precise focused notational thought (e.g. manipulation of symbols like pictures, words, etc.). For my deepest thoughts I need to explicitly work with notation on paper, in code, in drawing. I imagine animals are on the emotional/intuitive level as well as images and other sense representations, at least based on interactions with animals and on self reflection (e.g. "deep" response to smells, sounds).On self reflection I think most of my "thinking" is pretty low level and sense based, with a thin veneer of notational symbolic thinking on top. Most of the "wow" stuff is low level, that is likely why it is wow, and since I assume this is what we share with animals the "wow" part of life seems to be shared.