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>literally cannot fathom self-awareness or nontrivial abstract thought without words.
Except that isn't how it works, you retard.
Having an inner voice doesn't mean you can ONLY think with the inner voice, just like having the ability to visualize an apple doesn't mean you can ONLY think via visualization.
>not being able to construct thoughts without using the terminology and rhetorical patterns you picked up from the engineered language of an engineered society
Almost all people who have an inner voice are perfectly capable of doing just that.
It's not an either/or kind of thing.