@Hyolobrika I think it's just a new zoomer version of the millenial phrase of calling someone "basic"
So is the idea that if you don't have an internal monologue then you don't have a soul or don't think for yourself?
Because I don't think the latter is necessarily true, and as for the former, you kind of need to define "soul", I guess.
Personally, I have an internal monologue, but sometimes I come across a concept that can't be verbalised, and then I just have some kind of "feeling" in place of a word in my internal monologue.
Maybe my internal monologue isn't always on, I don't know.
Wbu?
@Hyolobrika @mitchconner @steeznson from what I can tell from both my own experience and external sources, our internal monologue isn't actually speech as we know it. It's a chain of thoughts loosely associated with language concepts and if we think on them with the language part of our brain they retroactively get translated into words, but the brain doesn't waste processing power on thinking with exact words all the time. Hence it's easier to have an internal monologue than to speak out loud.
We can also explicitly have an internal monologue coerced into words, but it's more like manual breathing.
I noticed that the most when I learned English enough for my brain to switch to thinking in it for the first time, when I was abroad and had to use it pretty much exclusively for a whole day. Since a language is also a way of thinking, I sometimes catch myself at chaining a Polish-like monologue with English-like monologue without realising it until I try to think back on it more explicitly and realise it doesn't fluently translate into either.
@Hyolobrika @mitchconner @steeznson and of course as you mentioned it allows us to think about concepts we can't put into words at that moment.
