ABSTRACT

Language is also important. We spend a lot of time using it or even just thinking in it. Most of us have a running voice in the head telling us what to do and what we’re thinking, and it’s easy to think of that voice as being the core of us. The complexity of modern life is unthinkable without it: how could we have designed and built cars, computers, and atom smashers without it? Indeed, it’s difficult to imagine being human without language.