I would rather unanswered questions than for anyone to be horrible with dogs. I prefer dogs over humans most of the time 😊

@Beth Absolutely.

> Is it possible to have thoughts without language?
@busillis Steven Pinker wrote a great piece about that. If I recall correctly, he contends you have an internal grammar for processing, not necessarily language per se. He would probably shoot me for my facile understanding.

I don’t know what a cerebellum is but other than that I think I understand

@Beth Agreed. The more I learn about people, the more I love dogs.

@Beth small brain, responsible for such things as coordination and balance.

Yes

How can someone not like the most loyal creatures around?

When it's so much harder to trust humans.

Food for thought!

I have two of pinkers books I have to read still

That is where I have difficulties in life.. I’m one of those people who always gets attached/stuck to a door knob etc

@Beth Kid A has a strong cerebellum, good balance and coordination. Kid B has a weak cerebellum, terrible at balance and coordination. Kid A has a weak frontal lobe (responsible for deductive thinking). Kid B has a strong frontal lobe.
Kid A will be into sports, kid B into reading.

@Beth you and me both. 😄 Hahahaha1

> I have two of pinkers books I have to read still
@robxtom lol I still have one. I read it a long long time ago, though.

Enlightenment now and the stuff of thought. Looked really cool

@zulu

I’m kid B 🙋🏼‍♀️

@robxtom 'The Language Instinct'. I'm looking at it right now. It is more of my post-its than book. Hahaha

Is this internal grammar a manifestation of biochemical reactions?

Facts lol I feel that

That's a doc question.

@Beth I am kid B too, but I wanted to be a soldier, so I trained like hell to acquire the skills of kid A.

He became superhuman.

Man AB.

😂😂

*bows*

@Zuluzeit thoughts without language? Doesn’t Chomsky cover this in his linguistic theory

Are there thoughts you can't put into words?

I think that's a rather good question toward this idea.

If my understanding is correct, you think far more quickly than you could ever think in language.

Feral children found a way to communicate with animals. The sad part is that past a certain age they can’t really converse with other humans in a way other people can

> @Zuluzeit thoughts without language? Doesn’t Chomsky cover this in his linguistic theory
@james j Perhaps. I've been repeating my synthesized abstracts for like 20 years. It is quite possible that they have suffered from generation decay. The upshot to me was that it's more of an innate order of operations issue than anything else. Again, I would expect to be flogged and am surprised that Doc hasn't bothered yet.

Innate seems right

Organisms have a predisposed biochemical interface for interpreting and reacting with an environment?

What is a reflex?

@Maw, you just advanced to level 22!

!rank

I've lost my spot.

Huh.