One of the most interesting possibilities inherent in assembling bits of various media online is the ability this gives us to create an essentially new way of conveying human thought—one that represents a more “native mode,” in the sense of coming closer to depicting thought as it actually occurs in the mind of the thinker.

When we think, it does not typically seem to be in the form of long, fully formed expository sentences.  We tend to conjure up lots of visual images, and we tend to sift through them fairly rapidly.  This is an effect that can be effectively replicated via both still and moving pictures, using editing techniques like flash cuts.

As for the words we hear in our minds when we think, these seem to more often be fragments than complete sentences.   They may be repeated in a kind of leitmotif, and they tend to be heavy on logical connectives like “but,” “what about?” or “that implies…”  Capturing the feel of this “Internal language” may be a bit more of a challenge, but the offshoot could be fascinating:  perhaps it will sound like an exotic hybrid between computer logic and poetry.

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