 One question that arises when thinking about nonconceptual content is whether a thinker can be in states with nonconceptual content despite not possessing any concepts at all. That is, can nonconceptual content be completely autonomous of conceptual content? The possibility of an affirmative answer to this question is important for many theorists who wish to employ the notion of nonconceptual content to explain the behavior of nonlinguistic and prelinguistic creatures (depending, of course, on how demanding their notion of a concept is). Similarly for those theorists who hold both that subpersonal computational states possess nonconceptual content and that the relevant modules can exist in creatures not capable of any conceptual thought.