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TIL that some people do not have an inner voice and think in different nonverbal ways.
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this post was submitted on 15 May 2024
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How do they read silently to themselves? ๐ค
It's like I just "know" the text. It's just in there with no intermediary.
The same way as listening to someone speak. There's a thread of consciousness that takes in visual data and is translating the written word into a string of syntactical concepts that is then processed analytically.
For those of you lacking caffeine today:
Translated: Yo' brain be doing a figure out.
I wonder if it does the voices too
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I was really surprised when I found out that people imagined voices when reading. Wouldn't they be sped up voices? People read faster than speech. It's so confusing...
I think the inner monologue is more there to "support" the processing of information rather than being filtered through it entirely.
How do you read silently to yourself? Seems like it would be harder and more noisy if you have to hear the whole thing.
I mean, not really. It's just words in my head.
What I'm getting from this thread is that almost everyone thinks their own cognitive process is easier and less annoying.
Which makes sense, because thinking is one of those things where people naturally just do it the most efficient way for their own neural structures.