People without an inner voice have poorer verbal memory
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The vast majority of people have an ongoing conversation with themselves, an inner voice, that plays an important role in their daily lives. But between 5-10 per cent of the population do not have the same experience of an inner voice, and they find it more difficult to perform certain verbal memory tasks, new research shows.
  • @[email protected]English
    5•2 months ago

    There’s actually a theory that back in ye olden times when inner monologues first started, people thought it was God talking to them because it was a new phenomenon and that didn’t have any way to understand that it was some kind of evolution of consciousness, not a god.

    • @[email protected]English
      1•2 months ago

      Yeah Jensen’s work. It is mostly considered pseudoscience today but there some who think it has value.

        • @[email protected]English
          2•2 months ago

          Ha! Good one.

          On a serious note here are the issues

          • He can’t explain how the event impacted the rest of the world. Only a fraction of the human race was there. How does he explain China for example?
          • We already know that meta-cognition isn’t limited to humans. A rat that knows where food is vs ones that do not engage in different behaviors.
          • He can’t explain the almost superhuman reflex speeds some people have in modern times under his model.

          I do agree some of it rings true. Just very hard to pin down what exactly.