My favorite explanation of what the verbal stream-of-concsiousness does is from this paper: http://www.jayhanson.org/_Biology/consciousness.pdf http://www.jayha

My favorite explanation of what the verbal stream-of-concsiousness does is from this paper: http://www.jayhanson.org/_Biology/consciousness.pdf http://www.jayhanson.org/_Biology/consciousness.pdf titled "Conscious Thought Is for Facilitating Social and Cultural Interactions: How Mental Simulations Serve the Animal–Culture Interface"