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Emmett Shear@eshear• over 1 year ago

An inner monologue is to thinking as reading aloud is to reading.

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 1 year ago
Replying to @eshear

@eshear similar complication here https://t.co/53BcuVOKj1

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UltimApe@ultimape• about 1 year ago
Replying to @visakanv

@visakanv @eshear I fixed my inner monologue. I can turn it off and on now. its really fun.https://t.co/ocvQjP5owj

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UltimApe@ultimape• over 1 year ago

You can fix this by eating more niacin and promoting natural serotonin production to boost activity in the hippocampus pyramidal cells. The chaos of different memories being inadvertently activated and then filtering thru Broca's area is what most people's 'inner monologue" is. https://t.co/REL1e8gMpP

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UltimApe@ultimape• about 1 year ago
Replying to @ultimape

@visakanv @eshear MIT made a device that can detect subvocalization a while back... if covid hadn't hit, i'd be tweeting while I'm asleep right now. I found someone who is making something like this and its really freaking cool.https://t.co/joIPLyxBjW

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UltimApe@ultimape• about 4 years ago

Did you know that we were able to communicate with people in their dreams by training them to move their eyes?@DashBarkHuss wants to tweet from their dreams.https://t.co/2fpjClhOSo

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UltimApe@ultimape• about 1 year ago
Replying to @ultimape

@visakanv @eshear The trick is learning how to count differently,https://t.co/x269Za3MuD

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UltimApe@ultimape• over 7 years ago

@vgr Found a vid by Feynman where he breaks down that assumption and describes the process of subvocalization thru language/music vs visual-spatial processing. It seems I don't think of code w/ language, but visual-spatially. Might be why I can multitask that.https://t.co/ZbHFibYkRu

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David R. MacIver@DRMacIver• over 1 year ago
Replying to @eshear

@eshear "actually very useful and underrated, though it probably shouldn't be your default" yup checks out.

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Emmett Shear@eshear• over 1 year ago
Replying to @DRMacIver

@DRMacIver Exactly. Often very powerful, definitely not necessary.

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David R. MacIver@DRMacIver• over 1 year ago
Replying to @eshear

@eshear I do think there are tasks for which an inner monologue is necessary, e.g. drafting a piece in my head, although one could argue whether those tasks are necessary

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Emmett Shear@eshear• over 1 year ago
Replying to @DRMacIver

@DRMacIver In that case the thing you’re drafting is the sequence of words…I’m trying to understand what it would even mean to draft a monologue in your head without having a monologue in your head at the same time. You can design eg an image without words. But not without mental imagery!

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David R. MacIver@DRMacIver• over 1 year ago
Replying to @eshear

@eshear Right, that's why it's an example where it feels necessary! Although that being said I do feel like I design images and flavours without corresponding mental sensory experiences.

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Varun Godbole@VarunGodbole• 3 months ago
Replying to @eshear

@eshear Something related came up at a dinner the other night. WDYT about the thesis in The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind? Curious if you find it credible?

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Emmett Shear@eshear• 3 months ago
Replying to @VarunGodbole

@VarunGodbole Gesture in the right direction, not factually correct.

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6/19/2025
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Varun Godbole@VarunGodbole• 3 months ago
Replying to @eshear

@eshear Out of curiosity, what do you find plausible/implausible about it?

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