Most people “hear” a voice when they think to themselves?! This is bananas to me!https://twitter.com/LanguageMIT/status/1203737103433191425 …
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Replying to @euthyphro
Have you ever done any meditation? What do you experience after sitting in a silent space with your eyes closed? If I maintain solid concentration, I don't voice much. But if my mind wanders at all, it's all languagey
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Replying to @NeuroYogacara @euthyphro
Yeah, and then there's images and even *tactile* thought
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Replying to @AtaraxJim @euthyphro
I never really get images; I get tactile stuff, and I’ve experienced my visual field as *expansive* though empty on a couple of occasions, but that wasn’t really visual either—not sure how to say what it was
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I wonder how much of the variation is due to differences in what's happening and how much to differences in how people describe it (if we can pull those things apart).
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Sadly, there’s probably no way to know! Aphantasia doesn’t seem to yield any currently detectable differences...maybe that means no one is experiencing imagery! (Likewise for audition, though subvocalizations do seem to be empirically tractable)
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Replying to @NeuroYogacara @keithfrankish and
There are differences. For instance, people with aphantasia may often experience inner imagery when using psychedelics or learn it via meditative practices. Visual imagery allows more feedback for creative design tasks than having just conceptual access to one's imagination.
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Replying to @Plinz @keithfrankish and
This suggests everyone has the "wiring" for inner voice, but for whatever reason, 15-ish% of people don't actively build on that in early childhood. VERY important: all have it, but not all build on it, OR, it's an ability that has only existed 12k or so years.
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If you have a language center you can probably train yourself to use inner monologue all the time. You can also use meditation techniques to learn how to turn it off.
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