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This is my conversational account. For my work follow @ribbonfarm, @breaking_smart, @artofgig. Tweets are 90% vacuous views, apathetically held. Mediocritopian.

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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jan 31
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    Huh, unlike aphantasia I don’t actually get what this no-inner-monologue thing is about. I can do inner verbal thought or turn it off like a radio and go verbally silent as needed. And when on, it isn’t a particular voice, just auditory-like streamhttps://ryanandrewlangdon.wordpress.com/2020/01/28/today-i-learned-that-not-everyone-has-an-internal-monologue-and-it-has-ruined-my-day/ …

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      2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jan 31
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        I can’t play back full textured voices but I can trace melodies of songs or non-lyrical compositions. While I don’t “hear” it the same way as live, there’s a ghostly trace of the particular voice. But yeah, I can turn it off. Apparently some experience ceaseless self-talk?

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jan 31
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        New realization: to the extent I have an inner monologue, it tends to be simulations of things I have to or might say or write in the near future, not “talking to myself” or running commentary on ongoing non-verbal behaviors

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      2. Royalty Free Music from Niftyland‏ @niftynei Jan 31
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        when i read your tweets, i do them in your voice. do you think this fits in the “inner monologue”-ing behavior set ?

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jan 31
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        How do you read text from people whose voices you haven’t heard?

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      2. TOoᴼᵒº˙⁰0₀ₒ.·ph‏ @tophtucker Jan 31
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        Replying to @Aelkus @vgr

        i hear myself replying to these tweets as i read them, in several voices

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jan 31
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        Devil possessed, burn him, burn him!

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      2. Pamela J. Hobart‏ @amelapay Jan 31
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        This one did confuse me almost as much as aphantasia. I am also monologue-less, and I find it almost impossible to believe that anyone has a true inner monologue narrating consistently. wtf do they feel like they're living as the protagonist of a movie?

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      3. Byrne Hobart‏ @ByrneHobart Jan 31
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        I wouldn’t describe it as a full monologue, ie it’s not as if I narrate everything I do. But “thinking” for me is entirely inner monologue-based. It’s kind of cool that what consciousness *is* to some people is totally unavailable to others.

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      2. Dorian Taylor‏ @doriantaylor Jan 31
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        what you mean you don't have gods speaking to you

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        When Jaynes-people talk to nonJaynes people

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