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Do Humans (and Animals) Think in Poetic Language?

2025-11-18

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The search for thought’s representational format has traditionally focused on Mentalese, neural codes, predictive processing, embodied sensorimotor models. Here we examine another hypothesis: human cognition may operate by default through a structurally poetic mode characterized by metaphorical mapping, rhythmic/repetitive patterning, imagistic compression, controlled ambiguity, acoustic structuring and affective...

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e554a75a-0e67-54c9-b90f-88b7f65ca056
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10.20944/preprints202511.1166.v1
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