The 24/7 NARRATOR | Munkhtulga Battulga | TEDxOrkhon KhaSu IS Youth

A debate over a dress's color, white and gold versus black and blue, led to a discussion on perception and communication. A color blindness test revealed a friend was green colorblind, but this didn't explain the dress's perceived colors. The speaker researched why people see colors differently, realizing that individual "reds" might look like another's "yellow," an unresolvable difference akin to explaining color to someone born blind. This "explanatory gap" highlights the challenge of conveying subjective experiences. The speaker then connected this to communication, recognizing their own poor skills and the existence of "inner monologues." Some people have constant internal narrators, others none. This internal "mental language" shapes how information is processed and understood. Effective communication, therefore, requires translating one's thoughts into the other person's mental language. The current education system, with its "one size fits all" approach, assumes everyone speaks the same mental language, disadvantaging many. This leads to inequality and lost talent, as exemplified by Albert Einstein, who was a poor student but a brilliant thinker. Addressing this requires a complex and expensive system tailored to different mental languages, but with the aid of AI, it's a crucial and urgent step to prevent humanity from losing talent. Communication is ultimately the art of translating between these diverse internal languages.