Helen Keller on her life before self-consciousness (1908) (scentofdawn.blogspot.com)
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I’m still thinking about what Helen Keller discussed in her paper on consciousness and language.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40466814 The paper is linked and disused in this thread. Her description of the void before having language is eye opening.

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