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10 Post author: PhilGoetz 09 July 2011 06:25PM

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Comment author: wedrifid 10 July 2011 05:50:12AM 3 points [-]

Has anyone developed techniques for thinking without words?

Michael Vassar and some associate of his did researchers into this. He reported some success but for him the without-thoughts thinking was just slower than the verbal form that he had been using for so long so it was not worth switching.