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You Don’t Need Words to Think
Thinking and consciousness are not synonymous. Thinking is only a small aspect of consciousness. Thought cannot exist without consciousness, but consciousness does not need thought.
from The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle
Thinking and consciousness are not synonymous. Thinking is only a small aspect of consciousness. Thought cannot exist without consciousness, but consciousness does not need thought.
from The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle
Thinking and consciousness are not synonymous. Thinking is only a small aspect of consciousness. Thought cannot exist without consciousness, but consciousness does not need thought.
from The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle
Our language-based theories of how our minds work don't often succeed in explaining how our minds actually work, for so many layers of the mind's operations occur prior to the stories and explanations we offer with language. Neuroscience is helpful in capturing more subconscious processes.
from Awe by Keltner Dacher
Debbie Foster added
- On the one hand, language is a wonderful tool. It allows us to describe these other worlds in metaphors that help us think and imagine them. But there are many places where our language leaves us in the lurch. Like with vision, we don’t have a word for detecting light but not having a conscious experience of it.
from What Counts as Seeing by ed yong
Keely Adler and added