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It’s hard even to imagine how other humans, from another time or culture think. While we have similar sensory apparatus we the world we experience is constructe
by totetsu 3y ago
It’s hard even to imagine how other humans, from another time or culture think. While we have similar sensory apparatus we the world we experience is constructed within our own consciousness, with all kinds of emotions and memories mixed in with the senses. If you think about your own mammalian physiological and emotional .. affective experience .. how it feels to run fast, be surprised, see something you want to eat.. then I think we can start to appreciate what it is like to think like a whale or a bat. Even though their sensory input is vastly different to use, they still construct their world with the same kind of equipment that we do
- glandium 3y agoIt's hard even to imagine how other humans, from our time and culture think. I have no clue how people experience life with aphantasia or no inner monologue. Yet these people exist, right now, among us.
- Etrnl_President 3y ago[flagged]
- boppo1 3y agoI think the 'no inner monologue' thing is overblown. I often don't have one as I go about my business because thinking in words would slow me down at ${task}. But if I'm driving or walking, then I will converse with myself at length. I'd be more likely to describe it as a dialogue though, because the way I perceive it, I'm talking to an imagined second party. It's still obviously me, but therf's a back-and-forth between different personalities.
- tempaccount420 3y agoI don't think parent is talking about you then? You have an inner monologue.