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Yes they can. Retreating to "I feel things I can't say" arguments that cannot be falsified is a cope.

Either that or you didn't put effort into writing it down or you lack the capability to do it.

You can even write sentences like "cows have wings and smells green". Regular thoughts are feeble by comparison in terms of complexity.

Claiming "a picture is worth a thousand words" may work out in family gatherings but irrelevant and meaningless in a computation discussion. Picture is represented by concrete symbols.



Having an internal representation doesn’t imply an English sentence exists. Temple Grandin's written about "thinking in pictures". Language is lossy. For a doctor, the question, how much does it hurt, on a scale from 1-10? is the best we can do.


Appealing to some authority won't rescue you as information theory doesn't work by arbitrary authority figures.

Thinking computational theory is about hurt is a joke. Resorting to feelings signifies lack of technical substance.

Language is precise or lossy depending on granularity.

Haven't you seen a png file in a computer. Visuals are symbols buddy. Hence representable in language.




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