More Languages Make You 🧑🏼🏫 Smarter
Big-brained Rob Conery looks at how neuroscience considers words as being more than audible representations of sounds — they are ‘abstractions of our higher brain function.’ Words are language so limiting yourself to a single language may ultimately limit your cognitive abilities. 😶
Words are the very structure of our higher reasoning — if you can't say it, you can't think it … Words are cognitive variables strung together to represent feeling, emotion, memory — abstractions made concrete by the words we put to them. 📲 Rob Conery, Technologist.
He looks at this in relation to programming languages where we tell machines how to think — which is a direct reflection of how we think. Code or any other non-native language are language abstractions used to describe problems that computers — or speakers of another language — can understand.
Context rules! How problems are solved directly relates to how we think in that language. 🤔
Different problems may be better solved with different languages. So, which language lets you solve a particular problem, best? How do those languages allow you to think more effectively about a problem?
Even this thinking about can expand your thought processes — the reflecting on how you would solve or say something in another language. But it's not just about thinking differently but thinking smarter because you can solve problems — or express yourself — better and in multiple ways. 🙋♀️
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