What Is the Language of Our Thoughts
According to Chomsky, the thought processes continue even without words
At Harvard University, Steven Pinker is a Professor of Psychology. He is interested in linguistics and cognition.
He has this fantastic idea that humans have a language of thought — called Mentalese.
According to the Professor, “Knowing a language, then, is knowing how to translate Mentalese into strings of words, and vice versa.”
This Language of our thoughts does not need words. Our feelings and emotions are its alphabets. It is as if Mentalese is our machine language.
Paulo Coehlo has also written about a universal language of symbols that can convey messages to the characters in his novels.
Noam Chomsky, a philosopher, and linguist said in a lecture, “Language does not give us the full capacity to express what we are thinking, feeling, hoping. People talk to themselves all the time, and it takes a tremendous act of will to understand what is going on inside our minds.”
Chomsky says we can see our thoughts happening inside our brains, and then we try to convert those thoughts into words.
According to Chomsky, art, writing, and music are attempts to express what a language usually fails to describe.
