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I think a better way to show this, would be that anendophasia [0] is a thing. Some people have no inner voice, but aren't thoughtless automatons. They can stil
by shakna 1y ago
I think a better way to show this, would be that anendophasia [0] is a thing.
Some people have no inner voice, but aren't thoughtless automatons. They can still task-switch the same as everyone else.
[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38728320/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38728320/
- daxfohl 1y agoOr by watching rats solve mazes
- shakna 1y agoI don't think we've attempted to study if rats have internal monolgues all that much, yet. It wouldn't surprise me if they did, or did not. I wouldn't say it is safe to assume they don't. About the only real animal model has shown that some species of monkey probably do. [0] [0] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0166432811001367 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01664...
- NoMoreNicksLeft 1y agoOn 4chan and reddit, they actually believe that those without an "inner monologue" have no soul.
- missingdays 1y agoReddit has roughly 400 million weekly users. You think all of them believe the same thing?
- NoMoreNicksLeft 1y agoThat's what the evidence suggests.
- shakna 1y agoJust to underpin how wrong this comment is, I - the person who posted the medical explanation - have been rather active on both those platforms.