[ExI] inner talk; idle curiosity

[William Flynn Wallace]

I have to have something going on up there or I will have to listen to
tinnitus - the various sounds I hear when not masked.  The people who say
they don't talk to themselves - how do they scold themselves?  Out loud?
bill w

On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 4:36 PM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On 11/11/2020 19:25, bill w asked:
>
> If I had been asked if everyone talked to themselves, had images of what
> they were reading , and so on, I would have thought:  don't most people.
> Answer: No.  So, on a gloomy day I just thought I'd ask:
>
> Do you talk to yourself when you are doing mathematics, solving an
> engineering problem, perhaps?
>
> How about when you are composing an email or some other written piece?
>
> Do you listen to music in your head?  Even compose it?
>
> Do you imagine the feel of some object, skin, fabric, tree bark when you
> see it?  You may be surprised at some of these questions , but not all
> people do these things.
>
>
> Yes to all the above, except imagining the feel of something when I see
> it. I often do that, but not always.
>
> I don't understand how anyone can think without doing those things (except
> the music, I can accept that there are people who don't play music in their
> heads most of the time. Poor buggers. I almost always have a tune in my
> head, so don't need constant background noise like some people seem to).
>
> --
> Ben Zaiboc
>
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