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o1 has shown a strange behavior where it thinks in Mandarin, while processing English prompts, and translates the results back to English for the output. I realized that the same could be possible for humans to utilize, speeding up conscious thought. [1] What makes Mandarin useful for this is that it: 1. Has compact tokens 2. Has compact grammar 3. Has abundant training material online 4. Can be used on computer systems easily (unicode support) Language[2]EnglishMandarinToki Pona[3]LatinGoogle Translate Intermediate[4]Compact Tokens❌✅✅❌✅✅Compact Grammar❌✅❌✅✅✅Significant Training Material✅✅✅✅❌✅❌Software Support✅✅✅❌✅❌Human Learning Ability✅✅✅✅✅✅❌ As a Jew, I learned the Hebrew Alphabet (but not vocabulary) to study for my Bar Mitzvah, and as a student of US public education, I had the choice in secondary school to learn Spanish, French, or German, in addition to learning English natively. I chose German, and I am very unlikely to change or stop learning this, but I wonder if it would be useful to learn a new language specifically to think in. This would pose some different requirements than traditionally learning a language, as reading and writing would be much less important for this task. Knowing many different words, and correct grammar would be much more important. The idea of Brain-Machine interfaces installed into one's brain, ending the need for languages altogether would bring a major improvement to human society, but intentional control of thought[5] via language could bring the same effect. Aside from the normal cognitive benefits of being bilingual or multilingual, would learning some new language (or a conlang for this purpose) specifically to have conscious thought with be useful? 1. ^ https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/14/openais-ai-reasoning-model-thinks-in-chinese-sometimes-and-no-one-really-knows-why/ 2. ^ These are not empirical or quantitative in any way, just the general ideas I sense from these. The other ideas expressed in this