found this interesting

  • RonJeremyCorbyn [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    wild. a stream of thoughts, seems so constitutive of, if not nearly identical to, who I *am", that it's hard to imagine being conscious in any other manner.

    • RonJeremyCorbyn [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      Psychology professor Russell Hurlburt estimates 30 to 50 percent of people have an inner monologue narrating their thoughts throughout the day.

      absolutely wild lmao. ya'll are legit bots ngl.

    • Antoine_St_Hexubeary [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      "Stream of thoughts" is not exactly the same as "internal monologue".

      The idea that the most usual form of human thoughts is "single-channel data stream bearing a very close stylistic/structural resemblance to spoken language" doesn't strike me as trivial, although it's not exactly surprising either.

      • VenetianMask [any]
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        2 years ago

        When this was a hot topic I thought "people with no internal monologue" meant people who didn't think like that automatically but could if they wanted to. I'm like that. Thoughts don't have to be language for me but I can also hold a dialogue with myself.