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Do We Need Language to Think? A group of neuroscientists argue that our words are primarily for communicating, not for reasoning. (www.nytimes.com)

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[–] givesomefucks 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's 100% good to study this, but the glaring issue is they're using people whose brains developed with language but now have lost that capability.

We need to be looking at people who never learned language and how their brains develop.

Which isn't really ethical in anyway.

Kind of like how we could learn so much if we started separating corpus callosums again, but you can't just do that to people just to see what happens.

[–] Noodle07 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Isn't language so important for human development feral children never manage to make it back into society?

[–] givesomefucks 3 points 1 week ago

Not never

But yeah, if you're not learning it young you're super far behind and might never catch up.

For this it would need to be taken even further though, you'd need people at least 25 who had never been exposed to language in any way. Most feral children are found after just a few years in the wild. I don't think there's ever been an adult human that never was exposes to language and then reintegrated.