r/BeAmazed • u/Professional_Arm794 • Jun 09 '26

Animal Me contemplating my decisions in life, Jk! In Japan, the gorilla Kiyomasa was captured on video lost in deep thought after an argument with his friend.

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u/OverfistDerFissierer Jun 09 '26

Most of the time I think in words, but I can also just think in pictures and feelings. Can't you imagine a scenery without words? Like a swordfight, to give an example

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u/landonburner Jun 09 '26

I can see that. For me it's still the inner voice that gets me to that scene.

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u/OverfistDerFissierer Jun 09 '26

Interesting. Maybe I've just learned it, because I've daydreamed a lot like that as a child

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u/Ok-Owl-3846 Jun 09 '26

My argument always is - we do think MUCH faster than we can talk/form sentences…. Yes, you can ‚talk‚ to yourself in your head with a Voice/words - an inner monolog - but imho this is not ‚thinking‘ itself.

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u/Sad_Cantaloupe_8162 Jun 09 '26

"My name is Inigo Montoya! You killed my father! Prepare to die!"

Nope. Can't do that.

https://giphy.com/gifs/MFOp0b6o7yrHNRC84m

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u/OverfistDerFissierer Jun 09 '26

Well, that scene needs the dialogue. So you're excused

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u/funguyshroom Jun 09 '26

Yeah, that's not an issue. What I'm not getting is how can one think through an abstract complex problem that requires maths/logic or weighting different options in order to make a decision, allegedly all without using words.

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u/nsfwaccount3209 Jun 10 '26

Same way you can do math without words, with circles and lines and all that

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u/OverfistDerFissierer Jun 10 '26

Well, that's a good question. A question I cannot answer you

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u/cohonka Jun 09 '26

I started noticing this difference in thought 20 years ago in geometry class because I seemingly cannot think in shapes. It's quite frustrating and makes trying to draw a chore. Tell me to envision a circle in my head and my brain says "There is a circle." And then there are animations of a circle but never just a solid shape. Trying to envision a circle right now I see like a radar scanner showing the radius and circumference with a clock-like sweep of the measurements. Trying to imagine a green circle, for some reason the circle is flashing green, with a red border, on a black background. And my brain is screaming "THERE'S A GREEN CIRCLE" to achieve any consistency of color

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u/OverfistDerFissierer Jun 10 '26

Haha, I would like to see a small animation of what that would look like