There are many who are unable to form images in their mind. Aphantasia isn't rare. But it's also not universal and people with aphantasia somehow manage to communicate to those without well enough most of the time. Perhaps then language isn't just visual images or purely mathematical abstractions.
I think the view of Wilfrid Sellars, basically language as a collectively-authored set of referents to a non-visual conceptual "picture" of reality, matches well with what you're saying here.
Yeah I just came across some similar ideas with reality being a shared hallucination that is based on aggregate consensus. Similarly the universe is an eventually consistent algorithm to allow that private state of each human to converge on a shared reality.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia
There are many who are unable to form images in their mind. Aphantasia isn't rare. But it's also not universal and people with aphantasia somehow manage to communicate to those without well enough most of the time. Perhaps then language isn't just visual images or purely mathematical abstractions.
I think the view of Wilfrid Sellars, basically language as a collectively-authored set of referents to a non-visual conceptual "picture" of reality, matches well with what you're saying here.