Thinking a little more: I think when I’m parsing a written sentence, words are closer like one-word-to-one-chunk correspondence. When I’m thinking them, I think groups of words tend to be more like a chunk. “Politics is the mind killer” might collapse into a single slot that I’m not looking at at super-high resolution, allowing me to reason something like “‘Politics is the mindkiller’ is an incomplete idea.’”
Thinking a little more: I think when I’m parsing a written sentence, words are closer like one-word-to-one-chunk correspondence. When I’m thinking them, I think groups of words tend to be more like a chunk. “Politics is the mind killer” might collapse into a single slot that I’m not looking at at super-high resolution, allowing me to reason something like “‘Politics is the mindkiller’ is an incomplete idea.’”