Chapter 9: Thought, Language and Intelligence was very interesting to me. It goes beyond the basics that make humans human. How we communicate with others, solving our problems in life, creating controversy over our opinions, teaching others our mistakes, and discovering that people can be more than you think they are. Thinking is such a strange concept to me, I think about writing a paper and I have endless possibilities of what I could write. I find it astonishing that we are compared to computers, when our brains are so much more powerful than the fastest computer. Our brain constantly adapts and always relates experiences to past ones; we learn concepts, rules and create relationships. We form concepts to generalize, relate things, aid our memory, and aid our reactions to certain environments and situations. Unlike computers, we can tell when we need to rest or when we are catching a virus. The brain stores information constantly and if it fails or is not important enough we get rid of it, instead of storing useless information that clogs up our processing. Although our brains are more complex and certainly contain more data, computers and our brains share characteristics. We both have an input of information, the processing stage and then the final output of information. Computers only use algorithms while our brain can use algorithms and heuristics. Even though our brain uses more than one form of decision making, our brains come up with obstacles. We often like to delay our decision making, but ultimately we try to make a decision that serves us better, otherwise we learn from our mistakes (hopefully) to become a better person and change the next time we are faced with a similar situation ....... half of the paper ......and but it means completely different things, in Spanish if you have an accent on a letter it completely changes the meaning. Instead of saying I went to the store with my father, you say I went to the store with my potatoes. I know there are some foreign languages ​​that produce clicking sounds, grunts, and guttural noises. Last year I had a Brazilian exchange student and a German exchange student and listening to the German exchange student Anna, talking to her parents she seemed so angry but only talked about my cat or her day. I find languages ​​to be a really lovely thing that people can use to improve their knowledge of the world and talk to people the way they naturally do. Works Cited MacNamara, A. (2013, Fall Quarter). Thought, intelligence and the psychology of language 100. Classroom lesson. Centralia College, Centralia, WA.