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I’ve been doing that for years and eventually the conversation with someone else vanished and it became simply my own inner monologue.
My gut points to the limbic-cortex feedback loop. Emotional vibe in the limbic system retrieves motor agency to recite a fact and relay it.
Our society pushes constant contact. Our cortex responds in that habit.
Over time the dialog with a friend seemed superfluous. As if my cortex finally learned to ignore that as part of fact retrieval.
Just a weird vibe from a one time shroom head. YMMV
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I’ve been doing that for years and eventually the conversation with someone else vanished and it became simply my own inner monologue.
My gut points to the limbic-cortex feedback loop. Emotional vibe in the limbic system retrieves motor agency to recite a fact and relay it.
Our society pushes constant contact. Our cortex responds in that habit.
Over time the dialog with a friend seemed superfluous. As if my cortex finally learned to ignore that as part of fact retrieval.
Just a weird vibe from a one time shroom head. YMMV