Adam Daniels, Harrison Koehli, Elan Martin, L.P. Koch
Sott.netTue, 09 Jul 2024 00:00 UTC
Self-talk. Visualizations. Bodily awareness. Unconscious thought processes. In our day-to-day course of existence our minds assimilate, respond and react to any number of stimuli from within - and without. But how often do we stop to consider just how we do this and what faculties of apprehension are actually put to use? And do we even have a framework, vocabulary and level of awareness from which to do it?
Inner speech (inner monologue), inner vision, sensory awareness, emotions and unsymbolized thinking are all categories that, according to psychologist and researcher
Russell T. Hurlburt, can help one come to know what one's "pristine inner experience" is. Along with such a framework and the research inspired by it come many questions. What does it mean to be "in the moment"? Do all people use all categories of inner experience with the same frequency? How are we used to describing our inner experiences to ourselves and to others? Were personages like Gurdjieff on to something when he encouraged people to observe themselves?
Join us this week on MindMatters as we question the many assumptions, presuppositions, and mediations that come between cognizance of individual inner experience, and a relative state of unawareness regarding just what makes us tick.
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Adam joined the editorial team in 2014 and is a co-host of
MindMatters. His particular interests include philosophy, history, exercise science, and technology. He particularly dislikes Critical Race Theory and people who're so afraid of death that they prevent others from living. He also knows kung fu.
Harrison Koehli co-hosts SOTT Radio Network's
MindMatters, and is an editor for
Red Pill Press. He has been interviewed on several North American radio shows about his writings on the study of ponerology, which are available on his
Ponerology Substack.
Born and raised in New York City, Elan has been an editor for SOTT.net since 2014 and is a co-host for
MindMatters. He enjoys seeing and sharing what's true about our profoundly and rapidly changing world.
Second of all, the irony of the reddit comment you posted as the article main image - of course that kid has an inner monologue - otherwise he would have not posed the question on reddit.
He sat and contemplated the fact his mom stared strangely at him and he decided to pose the question on reddit. That shows thought process, self awareness etc.
Awareness of the inner monologue is what you are after, not its absence.
Decision making, thinking are all traits of inner vocalisation.
One cannot plan without an inner monologue. Even the basic shopping list requires one.
And lastly you are literally playing with unfalsifiable categories. You cannot prove qualia, and no one will ever be able to prove it. It remains a personal verification. Just because people are manipulated, it does not make them NPCs. Mary's Room Experiment, The Hard Problem of Consciousness, Philosophical Zombies, they all show you cannot prove anything in this regard, so instead of creating false belief or giving the impression the weigh is scaling harder towards your convictions and making others believe something we might never know, rather deal with something more sensible and humble.
You yourselves advocate ideas here at Sott, so you also run on beliefs, but your evaluation of the information you gather and process is much more filtered and verified.
Get your head straight Sott, because sometimes you run on unsuspected arrogance/superiority with these hypothesis/theories.
good day