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Into consciousness more elearly and fully than does sub-vocal speech.
When working more difficult problem in arithnietic, children often drop back
into whispering their thoughts; and in his voyage round the world in Gypsy
Moth IV, Sir Francis Chichester relates that when working the boat in
difficult conditions, and when very tired, he found that it helped to tell him
self aloud what was to be done. This would explain the common experience
that after simply stating a problem ( academic or other wise) aloud, even to
a hearer who makes no other contribution but to listen , we sometimes find
a solution.
When a discussion takes place, we get this subjective effect on both
sides, together with the interaction of ideas which is the more conscious
purpose of those taking part. The resulting progress of thought can be
considerable . because it is so easy to transmit our verbal symbols, and so
much harder to transmit our visual symbols we have
built-in physical apparatus for the former but not the latter the double
advantage described above is attached, in the experience of most of us,
much more strongly to verbal symbols.
Socialized thinking
It follows from this that our verbal thinking is likely to be more socialized,
since it is to a greater extend the end product not only of our individual
thinking but of that of others, and of interaction between the two. To see
something, literally, from someone elses receive from him a drawing or a
photograph, whereas he can tell us what he sees without our making a
move, and we can both hear the same sounds while standing in different
places and looking in different directions . visions is individual , hearing is
collective, at the concrete as well as at the symbolic level., And it is
interesting to notice that when we do wish to emphasize individual rather
than collective aspects of a set of ideas , we talk about a point of view.
Even aspect is a visual metaphor. So a contrast is beginning to emerge
between the two kinds of symbols, along the following lines