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Nic_Smith comments on Thinking without words? - Less Wrong Discussion

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

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Comment author: Nic_Smith 09 July 2011 06:50:12PM 8 points [-]

Something which might be easier than completely eliminating the internal monologue would be to optimize it instead by adopting or creating a language with fast pronunciation, especially for the most common words. I looked through Wikipedia's list of conlangs but didn't find anything similar late last year.