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by ben_w 990 days ago
I seem to have two parts of my inner monologue, one comes up with complete concepts, the other puts them into words. When I started to notice this, I tried skipping the "make words" part to save time, as clearly I had not only had the thought but also was aware that I had already had the thought. This felt wrong in a way I have no words to describe as there's nothing else like that particular feeling of wrongness, though I can analogise it as being almost but not quite entirely unlike annoyance.

Anyway, point is 80% of this comment was already in my head before I started typing; the other 20% was light editing and an H2G2 reference.

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Sounds kind of like some Zen concepts about moving beyond language. And that language is a faulty method for communicating.