Eli5: If we use language as instrument of thoughts, how did our ancestors think?
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There is an innate mechanism in humans that we learn before we think in words: thinking in pictures.
Since those are the only two options we have, it’s safe to assume that our ancestors and animals today use one or both of them as well. Birds for example have an excellent memory of foraging places so they probably think in pictures. But they are also very vocal and develop complex individual melodies, so they probably think vocal as well. The more vocal an animal is, the more likely it is that it thinks vocal as well.
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