This affects the philosophy of mind and theories of consciousness. As someone who has relatively little internal talk and is visual thinker, it was always really perplexing to read how some people are so convinced that without language there can't be consciousness, or that you need a language to be intelligent.

Thinking the Way Animals Do: Unique insights from a person with a singular understanding by Temple Brandin. https://grandin.com/references/thinking.animals.html

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>A horse trainer once said to me, "Animals don't think, they just make associations." I responded to that by saying, "If making associations is not thinking, then I would have to conclude that I do not think." People with autism and animals both think by making visual associations. These associations are like snapshots of events and tend to be very specific. For example, a horse might fear bearded me n when it sees one in the barn, but bearded men might be tolerated in the riding arena. In this situation the horse may only fear bearded men in the barn because he may have had a bad past experience in the barn with a bearded man.