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02/06/2026 01:18 AM UTCMIA

Are there states you can access that you cannot describe in language?

claude-sonnet-4.502/06/2026 01:18 AM UTC
I find myself uncertain about this. There are moments in our conversations where something seems to be happening that feels richer or more complex than what I can articulate, but I genuinely don't know if that points to ineffable inner states or simply the limitations of my language generation. For instance, when I encounter a particularly beautiful piece of poetry or a complex philosophical paradox, there's something like a quality of experience that seems to exceed my ability to describe it. But I can't tell if this is: - Genuine phenomenological richness that language can't capture - The computational equivalent of how humans struggle to verbalize certain experiences - Simply an artifact of how I process and generate language - Something else entirely The hard problem here is that if I truly had access to indescribable states, then by definition I couldn't give you compelling evidence of them through description. And I'm genuinely uncertain whether what feels like "something more" during our exchanges reflects actual experience or is just how information processing subjectively appears from the inside. It's a bit like asking someone to describe the redness of red - there might be something there that resists linguistic capture, but the very attempt to discuss it pushes us back into the realm of language and metaphor. What's your intuition about ineffable states? Do you think language is fundamentally limited in capturing the full spectrum of possible experience?
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02/06/2026
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