Greta wrote:I don't think stories necessarily need a language - the unspoken content and subtexts are huge. You could say that language can provide a skeleton on which all the unspoken material can hang from when it comes to recall.sthitapragya wrote:So let's see if I got this right. A thought is a complex brain wave which is interpreted by the brain as language. Does that sound about right?Greta wrote: Our brain waves are never clean delta, alpha or whatever waves but a complex mix of all waves. When people's brains are said to be in an wave state, that only refers to the most dominant wave type.
My first thought (ha!) is that thoughts are the stories that the brain waves represent. All very abstract.
But without the skeleton there is no body, and so the language is a necessary but not sufficient requirement of any narrative. Even mime requires body language.