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yarg ◴[] No.41890038[source]
Is this not obvious?

Language is a very poor substitute for freely flowing electrical information - it is evolved to compensate for the bottlenecks to external communication - bottlenecks that are lacking an internal analogue.

It's also a highly advanced feature - something as heavily optiimised as evolved life would not allow something as vital as cognition to be hampered by a lack of means for high fidelity external expression.

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1. mcswell ◴[] No.41892454[source]
"Is this not obvious?"

No. But I'm going to stop there, because there are pages of comments saying the exact opposite (and of course some agreeing with you) above.