/sci/ - Science & Math

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>by skipping a part that I already "understood" without even having to think about it
Yeah exactly, but interestingly enough, try to force yourself to think verbally with an internal voice long enough if it wasn't natural for you and you may find that subvocalization of the thought you just had will start to follow almost instantly, to your annoyance, and further a still more curious phenomenon will occur in which you begin to believe that unless you subvocalize your thoughts and hear them in that inner voice then they won't be remembered, or processed or absorbed and will be forgotten, or not given the same weight and importance in your brain. Which is quite ridiculous when you think about it, you're the one experiencing the thought, its not somehow less of a thought or of less importance whether its subvocalized or entirely unsymbolized but that's what I and at least one other anon have experienced, its crazy interesting.

Makes you wonder why this occurs and whether this has something to do with the almost unspoken notion the majority of people have that all thinking is verbal, frankly this whole mess makes me regret trying to develop that kind of thinking. As before the only time I actually subvocalized words in my head were either when recalling song lyrics or movie quotes, or in daydreams of conversations with others about random shit or something I learned and then explained to others.

However having prior experienced the extremes of unsymbolized thinking, and having read of the extremes of subvocalization (constantly running inner monologue for every action and thought they have) and of visual thinking (that lady who only thinks in vivid pictures) and having gone from aphantasia to somewhat vivid mental imagery I can conjure up at any time with focus, it becomes clear to me that you really can train different modes of cognition but the changes take very, very long to occur to any noticeable degree.