Seems to me that there’s only a very short jump between having a monologue at all, and having an inner monologue. Small children go through a similar stage wher

Seems to me that there’s only a very short jump between having a monologue at all, and having an inner monologue. Small children go through a similar stage where they repeat speech back with increasing fidelity, then after several million years of subjective listener time they finally learn to “use their inside voice.” (Don’t worry, I’m not equating the two… but this pathway does work.)