When I asked someone this, they say they don’t think of words when they do something like turn the knob of a door to open it. But I think in words and images, and I also don’t think of words when I open a door, because to me it isn’t a thought at all. But is that along the lines of how someone that says they think in concepts thinks? You think about every action you’re doing, just not in words? If there are no words, is it all images, or what actually \*is\* a concept to you?
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When you’re walking someplace, are you constantly thinking “oh I have to put my left foot in front now. And then the right foot”?
Likewise if you have to write an answer on a test, do you just begin writing the answer or do you tell yourself “Alright, I put my pencil down then slide it 45 degrees one way, 45 degrees the next way, put the equals sign which is two lines parallel, then write the number 2 which looks like a little squiggle and a straight line… (X=2)”
The internal monologue or thinking in images is not all of thinking. You do a lot of “thinking in concepts” as well. Some people just use that mode of thinking for more things.
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