Comment by samiskin

Language is definitely a significant part of thinking, but when I remember how cold it was outside yesterday to figure out if it was colder than today, I'm not bringing words to mind. I'm bringing up some other non-discrete information that I could never precisely encode into words and then factoring that in with the other non-discrete information I'm currently taking in through my senses. Its only after that processing that I encode it as a lossy "It was colder yesterday" statement.