This NPC meme came about from a study in which most people claimed they didn't have an "internal monologue". I wonder if some of the people who answered "no" interpreted the question as "do you hear voices?", but nevertheless many people clearly think in a fundamentally diff way.
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Replying to @HbdNrx
Hold on... a study has found *most* people DO NOT have internal monologue??
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Replying to @HbdNrx
This is explains too much, yet now I'm horrified I am surrounded by zombies. If anyone can cite this study, I would really appreciate it, as I contemplate...everything
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Replying to @OlympianDeism
One article on the subject:https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/pristine-inner-experience/201110/not-everyone-conducts-inner-speech …
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Replying to @HbdNrx
Maybe I'm overreacting, but I find this extremely alarming.
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Replying to @OlympianDeism
I'm not really sure what to make of this specifically, although more generally I am well aware that there are a lot of dumb people out there.
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Replying to @HbdNrx
Maybe I'm hitting some limitations to my own thinking, but I just don't see how someone can be relatively intelligent without going things over in their heads in words. What, they just see pictures and have a flood of emotions? Or worse, nothing at all, just static?
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Replying to @OlympianDeism @HbdNrx
I have encountered people who, in talking to them, made me wonder if anything at all was going on upstairs. I attributed this to me being overly harsh, but if you're not having a conversation going on, maybe many people really are a kind of walking dead. A horrifying proposition
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I would be careful about trusting different people to describe their own inner workings in the same ways. I think we'd have to spend more time looking into this to draw any firm conclusions.
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Replying to @HbdNrx
True; I remember in high school kids in my science class claiming they didn't have a blind spot when our teacher was explaining how the eye works.
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