I interviewed Kirsten Carlson, a PA Student at Francis Marion University, who is one of the few people that do not have an internal monologue. She does not h...
"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.
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.
"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.
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.