Brain Hacks: Why Language Might Be Holding Our Thinking Hostage

Okay, hear me out.

Language is a beautiful but deeply flawed medium for thinking. It's like trying to pour an ocean through a drinking straw. When we articulate thoughts in words, we're forcing complex, multidimensional cognitive processes into a linear, sequential bottleneck.

I've been nerding out over AI and machine learning, and this tweet from Andrej Karpathy hit different. He basically said you know an AI is doing real reasoning when it stops speaking English in its thought process. And I'm like - YES. EXACTLY.

Consider mathematics, where symbols zip around faster than sentences. Or programming, where flowcharts capture logic more elegantly than paragraphs. These domains hint at a deeper truth: language isn't thinking. Language is just reporting.

Imagine your brain is this crazy powerful quantum computer, and then you're trying to explain its workings using... Twitter? A kindergarten show-and-tell? That's what using language to think feels like.

Our brain isn't linear. It's not a neat little sentence. It's a wild, messy network of connections firing everywhere at once. But we keep trying to squeeze that cosmic weirdness into these tiny linguistic boxes. What if we could design a way of "thinking" that actually matches how our brains work?

Not words Not steps But something more like a living, breathing map of connections Where ideas can exist simultaneously Where complexity isn't flattened, but celebrated

Imagine a reasoning system that:

Uses topological representations instead of linear text

Processes information through dynamic, multi-dimensional graphs

Employs spatial and temporal abstractions beyond linguistic constraints

Allows simultaneous, non-sequential processing of complex ideas

The future of reasoning isn't about speaking more clearly. It's about finding entirely new languages of thought.

Language doesn't think.

Language reports.

And sometimes, it just gets in the way.

mic drop 🧠✌️