When philosophers sit down and ask themselves, "How do I think?", they invariably end up concluding that consciousness is an internal monologue. A monologue is

When philosophers sit down and ask themselves, "How do I think?", they invariably end up concluding that consciousness is an internal monologue. A monologue is one of the many capabilities of the mind, but it's highly overrepresented in philosophical writings because the subject is himself trying to formulate the answer in words while doing it. If instead you developed your theory of the mind while observing people performing tasks, you might see occasional evidence of inner monologue but it wouldn't be the dominant paradigm.