BrienneYudkowsky comments on Meditation Trains Metacognition - Less Wrong

29 Post author: BrienneYudkowsky 20 October 2013 12:47AM

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Comment author: BrienneYudkowsky 21 October 2013 06:42:46PM 1 point [-]

Or maybe I don't notice it somehow.

Yes, this is exactly why I want to be able to directly test for inner speech without having to go through the vocal muscles.

Comment author: linkhyrule5 21 October 2013 08:24:43PM *  2 points [-]

.... There's something that's confusing me here. I notice that I am confused and am pointing this out to remind me to get back to it.

It's to do with the fact that, while whenever I consciously read I subvocalize, when I really get entranced by a book my subjective experience looks more like watching a movie, and I hear things only when people speak them.

It's also to do with the fact that I'm not sure what reading without subvocalization would look like; no matter how you take in an input string you're going to have a temporary variable with bits of the string lying around somewhere.