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This is becoming extremely long. I shall try to be brief.
Of course I want to know why there are biases such as confirmation bias. (I am aware of some possible explanations, but so far as I know all anyone has is plausible conjectures.) I have seen no evidence that you have any accurate information about that.
There are more numbers than words. There are even more integers than words. There aren't more integers than descriptions of integers using words. Whether there are more things than words depends on all sorts of difficult scientific questions and perhaps also on exactly what your definition of "thing" is.
I remain unconvinced by your panegyrics about universal love.
"I have spoken to tens of thousands of people from all over the world, and they all said so as kids!": then I suggest that you have very strange priorities in what you discuss with them. (Actually, and I hope you aren't offended, I strongly suspect that you are lying or mistaken about this.)
"Being in-Love with all words gives us the insight and intuition to know without having any specific info!": ciphergoth was definitely right: you are either entirely unready for, or totally out of sympathy with the aims of, LW, and it is very unlikely that you will either get much benefit from being here or do much good to anyone else here.
"Specific example: [...]" You have misunderstood what I was saying, and that is not an example of anything to do with what I was saying.
"the brain cannot think without words: music is a word": No. I think you are fond of making confident statements about things you do not understand.