That Little Voice In Your Head: Adjust the Code that Runs Your Brain

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Sometimes, you felt nervous that someone would do something against you if you didn't do as they wished. It actually is foreign to me to think that people form complete sentences in their head — that seems like such a waste of time and energy!

When they scanned the brains of people who reported hearing voices, they discovered that many of the same areas of the brain are active during both auditory hallucinations and inner speech. Studies show that children as young as 18 to 21 months of age can use some form of inner phonetics . Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), they studied the difference between activity in the brain when participants experienced an auditory verbal hallucination, and when they deliberately imagined hearing the same voice. Also known as our inner voice or internal speech, this stream of verbal consciousness can take almost any form: from running through a list of things you need to do today, to playing out past conversations, or imagining new ones.People who experience aphantasia don't experience visualizations in their mind; they can't mentally picture their bedroom or their mother's face. Then, one day, as you went into your room to play, you saw your toys and a little voice in your head told you: "You should pick these up. In so doing, it maintains both the experience of a self and the experiencer of a self, which it believes are needed to ensure survival. People say making cups on actual pottery wheels is really hard, but I just feel like I’d have a knack.

Nearly 20 years ago, the movie "I, Robot" warned of an impending robot revolution powered by artificial intelligence that views humanity as "scum. It helps you distinguish between different sensory experiences, such as those created internally or externally.But other times, when you are reasoning, you might entertain and engage several points of view — like a conversation, a dialogue. For example, psychologists have argued that hearing voices (“auditory verbal hallucinations”) might simply be a form of inner speech that has not been recognised as self-produced (although there are also important competing theories).