> I am almost convinced that we ourselves are a narrator riding along inside an animal's mind I think this is one of those "some truth, but not the whole truth

> I am almost convinced that we ourselves are a narrator riding along inside an animal's mind I think this is one of those "some truth, but not the whole truth" things. Yes, we trick ourselves, such as with mis-remembered reflex actions: "I felt it, it hurt, therefore I decided to move", even though the nerve-impulse speeds means your limb was moving before your brain even knew about the pain. But the "narration" seems to be very important. We create stories to capture cause-and-effect about the world (unclear how much that requires language) and it seems to be beneficially adaptive. In fact this drive is so important that we do it even when we abstractly know it's wrong, like when flipping 50/50 coins and imagining a particular coin is luckier than another, or that you're on a "hot streak", or "now that other outcome is overdue."