We can't know what other people experience in their head, only how they describe it. To me inner dialogue is whenever we express a thought to ourselves using l

We can't know what other people experience in their head, only how they describe it. To me inner dialogue is whenever we express a thought to ourselves using language. Like I think "now would be a good time to make coffee". When someone says they don't have an inner monologue I'm very skeptical. I imagine how it would work is either they only picture such a thing (getting up to get coffee) or its just like a high dimensional emotion of hunger and movement. Which I suppose is how it must work for animals. But how this can work for more complex and abstract things like analytical philosophy is beyond me. For advanced math I can imagine just seeing equations.