I think it's called 'chunking'. So 'Could you explain' (concept #1: explain -> describe / analyze) 'what happens' (concept #2: happens -> series of events, a process) 'when you read text' (concept #3: reading -> interpreting symbols).
For me it's all visual / mechanical, kind of like playing with Legos. No 'inner voices' are involved; though sometimes I will sort of internally mutter to myself, 'okay, let's get to work' at the start. For example if I read the word 'seventy-two' I visualize the decimal numbers '72' as an image.
I read a lot of scientific and technical literature, and I've found that trying to verbalize it isn't of much use and just leads to confusion. In contrast, I will 'hear voices' when reading a work of fiction but only when it's dialogue.
Interesting! Gauging from the original Reddit post, it seems that people exist on a spectrum regarding this for whatever reason.
This could explain a lot about why some people learn certain stuff faster than others. For example, maths encoded into language is just a set of meaningless rules you have to memorize, but when you process it in concept-space the ideas behind maths make so much more sense. So, if you have someone who processes stuff mainly through language, their speed of learning math is significantly slower than someone who processes them in concept-space.
For me it's all visual / mechanical, kind of like playing with Legos. No 'inner voices' are involved; though sometimes I will sort of internally mutter to myself, 'okay, let's get to work' at the start. For example if I read the word 'seventy-two' I visualize the decimal numbers '72' as an image.
I read a lot of scientific and technical literature, and I've found that trying to verbalize it isn't of much use and just leads to confusion. In contrast, I will 'hear voices' when reading a work of fiction but only when it's dialogue.