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How could one "think about what they're going to say" without some level of prior inner speech or conceptualization? It may not be precisely the same as spoken
by keiferski 3y ago
How could one "think about what they're going to say" without some level of prior inner speech or conceptualization? It may not be precisely the same as spoken speech, but it would still be a kind of speech.
- vidarh 3y agoWhy do you assume conceptualization requires verbalization?
- keiferski 3y agoThat's just how I understand the process, from my experience. Can you elaborate why you think it doesn't, instead of writing single sentence replies?
- vidarh 3y agoI don't know whether it does or doesn't, but I just don't see any evidence that demonstrates that we do. E.g. how do you know from your experience whether the verbalization drove the conceptualization or whether it's effectively purely narration of non-verbal conceptualization? It's not even a given that they happen at the same time vs. being a post-rationalization of processes happening separately (e.g. we know from split-brain experiments that the brain halves are perfectly happy to verbalize explanations for decisions they demonstrably didn't make)
- tacheiordache 3y agoI personally have a very hard time thinking out loud but have no problem thinking quietly. I'm for example terrible at explaining something while working on it but could easily explain it afterwards.