Post #3594369

2026-07-04 23:14 UTC

My base thoughts are non-verbal. Sometimes I describe it like shapes in a hyperdimensional vector space. My internal monologue is basically just practicing translating these base thoughts into language, to explain concepts to others.

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@ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 2026-07-05 01:05

This analogy started to feel particularly accurate for my own experience when I started learning a second language. I realised that I wasn’t learning what one word meant in another language, but instead, attaching the two words to a deeper idea/concept. It means that I’d often understand what I was hearing, but even when I was listening in my new language, I didn’t automatically have the translation to my native language (English). And my thoughts/internal experience is like that. I can pull the words out to describe the thing, but the actual thought itself, the concept that I’m using the word to describe is where I would say my thoughts naturally sit

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@amelia@feddit.org 2026-07-06 06:07

This describes my mind pretty accurately. Except for one thing: the hyperdimensional vector space thoughts are usually accompanied by a soundtrack of some stupid song I got stuck in my head for the last 3 days.

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