Another Tok Journal... On reflection, I can see how this might've taken down my mark... Not that I don't agree with it, but its short and not that well articulated. Doesn't really answer anything, but it poses some interesting thoughts.

Mood: contemplative

We don’t think in a communicative language. It’s plain obvious. If you don’t realise this, then think about it for an hour or so and read on.

So what do we think in?
First thing to do is to find a stimulus and let your mind react.

Read the words: “Wheel Barrow”

What came up?

It would be different for almost anybody else, but you would probably see a picture. The picture would either come from memory imagination or a fusion of the two. So, we can think in pictures and we can draw information from memory and imagination.

It could also have been information about wheelbarrows (definitions, poems, stories and other boring stuff) probably in a communicative language. But this will probably not go through your head initially, as it takes too long and it is one of your head’s clumsiest mediums to think in. It, if it came up at all, would only come up as an aftertaste when you had finished with your initial response. This information comes from the same place as images, but the imagination side of it is filled with rules and limits.

Emotion could’ve been triggered by “wheelbarrow” also, though probably as a secondary reaction to one of the above two.

Other reactions could include music; a language that any can hear but all will see with different meanings, and other mind-escapingly obscure style.

I also believe there is a silent personal code (that chooses all of the above reactions, and crafts some as well). But I have no proof as of yet.

When analysing these, you would probably have to break them down into language and many important elements get discarded, due to the limits of language.
“The limits of my language are the limits of my mind” = poetic… and stupid.

“The limits of my language make it more difficult to understand the workings of my mind” = not so poetic (at all really)… but it makes a lot more sense than the original, wanky quote.

What we think in is a hard (if not impossible) question to answer, but most of the important (philosophically important) questions are.

"and other mind-escapingly obscure style." --- I'm pretty sure i meant something when i wrote this, but i, probably not unlike you, looked on with a blank expression this time... i wondered if it was a gramatical mistake, but i fiddled and couldn't come up with any good alternatives.

“The limits of my language are the limits of my mind” =misquote i think its of his world actually... yeah kinda bad to misquote.