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Re:How to Quiet Your Mind Chatter (2021) by candlemas on Monday April 25, 2022 @10:36AM (#31155449)
>how slow would a person’s thought processes have to be if they had to spell everything out in internal monologues?

The verbalized "thoughts" come after the fact. They thought already exists and then you put it into words to yourself. The verbalization can be confused for thinking.

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Re:How to Quiet Your Mind Chatter (2021) by BizarroLand on Monday April 25, 2022 @12:46PM (#31157431)
This is a good point. I bet a lot of people who assume that since they process their thoughts verbally in their head that all of their thoughts are word based, but there had to be some function under that stringing the words together to express the thoughts verbally.

It would be like your Operating System thinking that it performed the computations it needed to show this web browser on your screen without the help of the CPU.

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