We Used to Think Everybody Heard a Voice Inside Their Heads – But We Were Wrong(sciencealert.com)

We Used to Think Everybody Heard a Voice Inside Their Heads – But We Were Wrong

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ggm3 mesi fa

So far we've had no inner vision in 3D, and now no voice. I am wondering if we're going to get another or if these two are the only choices out there? I suspect no sense of spatial direction isn't "it" nor is "no sense of writing" because I know I can visualise written words, but it's not what I do when I read and I read (and recall) a lot of written work. Or perhaps I do, and I don't yet understand that I do? Dreaming of reading is not the same as a mechanistic approach to what reading comprehension "is" and possibly my interior model of what writing is, is more than just the vision of the surface of ink?

Would it be possible to e.g. have no sense of time? No innate ability to recall sequence detached from consequence? "this, because that prior" is causal. "this, followed by that" is simply sequential.

I can't even imagine how to test some of this. I think its amazing how people can think up a test for this kind of thing. Thats a well known phenomenon: Failure of imagination. I got that.

xvxvx3 mesi fa

Interestingly, 2 of your points came up a few years ago regarding race. People argued that punctuality and the preference of time was racist as Black people had trouble with time. This was ridiculed, somewhat, as laziness but what if it is not? The same went for a study on crime and found that Black criminals were less likely to understand consequences, with many examples of people arrested for crimes, such as shoplifting, who claimed to not know what they were being arrested. What if that is not an act, but that they genuinely can’t piece it together?

ggm3 mesi fa

This is racist. I absolutely repudiate this even as a thought experiment.

xvxvx3 mesi fa

I literally cannot comprehend someone not having an internal monologue. I thought this was a joke, or a misunderstand, for many years. I equate it directly with thinking.

lepuski3 mesi fa

Maybe the "NPC meme" wasn't completely wrong.