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Does Consciousness Depend on Language?

If we did not have language, would we have consciousness? Does language help create consciousness? Or does consciousness create language? Some argue that consciousness is the product of our capacity to have language, and if we did not have language, we would not have consciousness. Others argue that consciousness has formed human language, with language being the last expression of thought.

06:20 | 2015

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