Without language means without thinking in words. some would say that when we think we are just silently talking to ourselves. also explained in lecture.

conscious here means aware of your own thoughts and feelings in the human sense, not just aware of external stimuli. Cockroaches are aware of external stimuli (when lights go on they hide), but do they think- the lights are on, he can see me. I must hide. or is it more of a motor reaction to light. Perhaps thinking is just silently talking to ourselves because we are so trained to think in language. from birth people ask how you feel, what are you thinking; and you answer in language. We are so trained that we ask ourselves how we are feeling; and answer in language. This is what they meant by the left hemisphere interpreter in the text. The left hemisphere interpreter becomes the over riding soundtrack of our lives, giving a continuous verbal play by play of our thoughts. This can be helpful to stay on task, but have we lost the ability to just feel without the verbal analysis? When we see a sunset can we just feel the beauty- or are we constanly thinking that the golden color is like the couch we saw at Ikea? Perhaps that is point of Zen or meditation- to shut off the chattering voice and just feel.