hylleddin comments on Rationality Quotes June 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: hylleddin 13 June 2013 06:14:56PM 2 points [-]

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?

Comment author: Desrtopa 13 June 2013 06:45:15PM 0 points [-]

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.