Ted Chiang Quotes

The Idea Of Thinking In A Linguistic Yet Nonphonological Mode Always Intrigued Me. I Had A Friend Born Of Deaf Parents; He Grew Up Using American Sign Language, And He Told Me That He Often Thought In ASL Instead Of English. I Used To Wonder What It Was Like To Have One's Thoughts Be Manually Coded, To Reason Using An Inner Pair Of Hands Instead Of An Inner Voice. With Heptapod B, I Was Experiencing Something Just As Foreign: My Thoughts Were Becoming Graphically Coded. There Were Trance-like Moments During The Day When My Thoughts Weren't Expressed With My Internal Voice; Instead, I Saw Semagrams With My Mind's Eye, Sprouting Like Frost On A Windowpane. As

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