Can you think without that massive prosthesis called language?

Life without language — it’s a cognitive reality that is virtually impossible for most modern humans to fathom. For the vast majority of us, our thought processes have been profoundly shaped by the introjection of language into our cognitive worlds, the taking on board of a massive intellectual prosthesis, the collective product of countless generations. Human thought, for the majority, is not simply the individual outcome of our evolved neural architecture, but also the result of our borrowing of the immense symbolic and intellectual resources available in language.

We might try to imagine thinking without language, but, of course, we’d be doing that with language itself.

Source: Neuroanthropology http://neuroanthropology.net/2010/07/21/life-without-language/