But there is actual a body of research that is pretty well established.

@Undead Mockingbird no, there isnt.

Challenge accepted.

Using annedotal evidence though.

I highly doubt people don't have an inner dialogue it would make them pretty much non-functional methinks

@Undead Mockingbird https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Lki2FlXX64

But how do you "measure" inner dialogue @Redneo

Maybe those kids who grew up abused, or without parents in the forest

Wait wait

@stedly they had people write reports of their life in regular intervals. Some people didnt describe any inner dialouge, thats all

at that specific time where they were writing it down

There are people that cannot have inner dialogue with themselves?

its that even possible?

@Redneo True, theres no way of for sure telling if they do or don't have inner dialogue. They can claim they do or don't. Brain Scan them maybe?

you gotta be joking thats even posible? i mean how?

its also not something they were specificly asked about i dont think from what i remember

It might be one of those things that actually might be there, but you go to measure it like quantum physics and its not there.

just randomly reporting whats going on with them, thad didnt include any inner dialouge for some people

Heavey, Christopher L., and Russell T. Hurlburt. "The phenomena of inner experience." Consciousness and cognition 17.3 (2008): 798-810.

God i mean there should be explanations for that

" We used DES to describe 10 randomly identified moments of inner experience from each of 30 participants selected from a stratified sample of college students. We found that each of the five phenomena occurred in approximately one quarter of sampled moments, that the frequency of these phenomena varied widely across individuals, that there were no significant gender differences in the relative frequencies of these phenomena, and that higher frequencies of inner speech were associated with lower levels of psychological distress."

maybe they were distracted or they remembered something or were interested in a wall or a fly or something

I mean we can go further into the rabbit hole on inner dialogue, and drag out the MK-Ultra bullshit.

Hurlburt, Russell T., and Sarah A. Akhter. "Unsymbolized thinking." Consciousness and Cognition 17.4 (2008): 1364-1374.

I would also argue that Lawrence Kohlberg has commented on similar observations.

@stedly LSD? all for that

I mean even if its true its genetic right?

@Redneo They did a lot more than just LSD.

It depends on whether you investigate it from a purely linguistic perspective or from one of moral reflection and inner dialog.

(the acronym for LSD btw is german)

God if something like that would be real it would be really interesting

LisergSäureDiethylamid

Säure being german for acid

@Strufa I think that video also referenced that they cannot explain the root of their beliefs either, indicating that it wasn't something they created

lol

been a while since I watched it

Well but that i can accept

i mean most people just accept things cause it made them feel good

And then he was killed off

thats why religion is always prevalent