How do people without one form thoughts, then? Without using words???
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You can do that too. After all, how do you know what words to use in your internal monologue?
Have you ever been at a loss for words or had trouble putting what you are thinking into words? That shouldn’t be possible if all thought was an internal monologue, you could just repeat your thoughts out loud.
In fact *most* of your thinking is done without an internal monologue, even for you who is having trouble comprehending it. For example look out your window and describe it in great detail. The objects, their color, shape, material, use, position relative to each other, the overarching concept of the scene, etc. Everything you understand about the scene try to write down.
Notice how when you glanced out the window you understood all that in an instant, without an internal monologue rattling off the whole description at light speed? Notice how it took a while to explain everything you understood about a particular object in words? That is all because most of the time, in fact almost *all* the time, you are not thinking in words.
People without an internal monologue are just thinking how you do 99.9% of the time, 100% of the time.
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