I’d be kind of surprised if people who have internal monologues need an inner voice telling them “I’m so angry, I >feel like throwing something!” in order to recognize that they feel angry and have an urge to throw something. I >just recognize urges directly, including ones which are more subtle and don’t need to be expressed externally, >without needing to mediate them through language.
In our case at least, you are correct that we don’t need to vocalize impulses. Emotions and urges seem to run on a different, concurrent modality.
Do ideas and impulses both use the same modality for you?
In our case at least, you are correct that we don’t need to vocalize impulses. Emotions and urges seem to run on a different, concurrent modality.
Do ideas and impulses both use the same modality for you?
Maybe not quite the same, but the difference feels smaller than that between impulse and language.
To me, words are what I need to communicate with other people, not something I need to represent complex ideas within my own head.
I can represent a voice in my head if I choose to, but I don’t find much use for it.