> It's just a little subroutine that evolved so you could rehearse dialogue with other humans That’s an interesting claim to make. What are you basing this on?

> It's just a little subroutine that evolved so you could rehearse dialogue with other humans That’s an interesting claim to make. What are you basing this on? Framing this as a subroutine also seems a bit of a limited view on our dialogue generation abilities. I can assure you that my internal dialogue rarely stops (meditation is an exception), and most often isn’t worried about talking with other people.