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H.I. #51: Appropriately Thinking It

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Do You Think Thoughts in Words?

When you're reading a book, right, and it's been written in like say the third person, and then there's a quote mark. What voice is that in? That's in my voice. It's still in my voice too. My own voice doesn't try to do the girl parts in a girly voice. This is not what's happening in my head. But it is as though I was just reading something out loud in my normal voice. When I focus on it, I am pretty sure that I am not capable of having a thought that is not verbally expressed inside my own brain. The same people who don't sub vocalize also seem to not think thoughts in words

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