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I have known a some deaf people and from what they and their family told me, mos of them thought on images until they learned some kind of language.
Am I taking a meme to serious? Perhaps lol
No, this is actually a really interesting topic regarding cognitive development, neuroscience, and ‘what even is consciousness?’
Like, apparently, around a 1/3 to 1/2 of ‘normal’ people… don’t have an inner monologue.
They don’t have an experience of their own inner thoughts as … semantic sentences, an inner voice.
Presumably, such people would literally not be capable of thinking in detail about what they say, before they say it.
Or, maybe there is some… other kind of inner langauge of some other form?
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What if you are deaf and have aphantasia?
Do most people not, then?
I’m just a layman, but from the little I’ve read, the way people think is incredibly diverse. Vast majority of people think in some combination of words, images, speech and concepts but most people have a “primary” thinking method. Some people think only in speech, some only in text, some only in images, etc but they’re the minority.
Chads like myself remember thinking in the original language before that whole tower nonsense. Then two idiots kept speaking to me in English and I forgot the first language
I’ve had a voice babbling away in my head since I was four. Most of the time it says the stupidest stuff and then calls itself stupid for saying that stuff
There was this one time as a teenager I meditated so hard I somehow shut off my inner monologue and got to experience my thoughts directly, at least until I realized what I was seeing and got excited enough to disrupt the precarious meditative state that got me there. Never managed to replicate it since then.
My 18 year old cat has gone deaf over the past year and I still tell her I love her. I also tell her to fuck off when she gets on the table and tries to eat from our plates but she no can hear.
i think the last one depends on whether the person had the ability to hear before
But how do you hear smells?
I’m not deaf, but I also can’t hear my thoughts. In my case it’s because of aphantasia.
Interesting. Is it still called aphantasia for that? I also have it, but the picturing kind. Can’t picture anything in my mind, but can definitely ‘hear’
I don’t have any hearing issues, and I wouldn’t say that I hear, or perceive, my thoughts as voices, just words without any voice or connection.
I am as deaf as they go and I can ‘hear’ my thoughts. It’s like the feeling of an unspoken whisper in your head. A whisper without sound, if you will.
I also don’t have any hearing issues. I’ve known folks who were hard of hearing but never anyone deaf.
The last one is the only one I might ask - and that only of someone I’d gotten to know. I can hear my own thoughts, sort of, but mostly feel emotions as some form of pressure.
