How do people without one form thoughts, then? Without using words???
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I may have reached a state of thought without words on the bicycle. Usually I think I have a fairly robust internal voice, or monologue. Even listening to a podcast or radio speech, I sort of scroll the words across my consciousness, even to the extent of spelling them.
Sometimes on the bike, I’ll have extended periods of time without the usual words, where I’m just reacting to the road and cars, shifting and pedaling. I think the degree of bandwidth required to ride may make it easier to not think about other stuff. It’s just you and the world. Also, now that I’ve put this into words, it’s probably just a flow state, like when you are doing an intricate craft or other activity, and you’re not really thinking about anything else.
What would be cool would be to do this while just sitting there doing nothing
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