This varies a lot by people - some people's conscious thought is in images, some in language, some in unsymbolised concepts. Hurlburt's "Descriptive Experience

This varies a lot by people - some people's conscious thought is in images, some in language, some in unsymbolised concepts. Hurlburt's "Descriptive Experience Sampling" is a good source on this - see for example table 2 of https://hurlburt.faculty.unlv.edu/heavey-hurlburt-2008.pdf https://hurlburt.faculty.unlv.edu/heavey-hurlburt-2008.pdf Agreed that underneath that perceivable layer, there's lots else going on too. But to be fair, there's also lots going on the weights of GPT-4, e.g. see https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.02207 https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.02207