What do you call a phenomenon where you ask yourself and answer and somehow it answers back

Question

I asked something like: Did he eat that last piece of cake he is not even hungry.

And my mind answers: Probably he doesn’t want that piece go to waste.

It happen most of the time. Do we have a good definition of what kind of phenomenon is this?

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Answer 1

Inference. You are using your past experiences to fill in gaps of information that are missing to you.