23rd January 2018, 11:31 AM
People are way WAY more different than I ever knew. Now I know what this one old teacher I had insisted that thought was "impossible" without language, which seemed so bizarre to me since I don't usually think in words at all but rather connect the raw ideas and logic in my head instead. I can "picture" things, but I guess some people do it like, literally and not metaphorically?
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)