Do you have an internal stream of language and ideas? Can a lack of internal dialog lead to lack of (self) awareness? Is it required for the proper application of logic? Fundamental questions I think.
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I don't think I have an inner dialogue and I'm almost certain that my son with ASD doesn't because he is almost non verbal. He thinks in pictures.
Can you put into words how you would think through a social problem?
Yes, definitely,
Perhaps I'll use an example of two people I know disagreeing and one subsequently asking my advice. This happens quite frequently.
I would try to simulate the mindset and situation of each person involved and what I think is their motivation, then I'd think about their reactions to each other. I would be doing this by imagining their own way of seeing the world and it's constraints.
I think I would skip the language part until a concept had to be moved from one person to another.
Then when I would try to describe what someone is thinking using language. I can do that.
That makes sense as the process of empathetic logic. I can't grok how to do this without the dialog between them.
If it were an argument between people described to me, yes I'd need the dialogue of the exchange so each of my simulated protagonists is updated with the latest point. I then update their state in my mind, and am able to describe their reaction in words, but maybe I hold my collection of information about people's emotional state or knowledge in a non verbal format, but one which can be described in words when interrogated.
It seems normal to me not to store or process thoughts as sentences .