[vvoid]

> "I found them!" you might say to yourself. But who are you telling?

I don't, personally, have this internal monologue. My interior world is a roiling foam of images, feelings and intuitions, memories and imagined possibilities that slosh around solid concepts and facts like boulders in the surf. I have no trouble thinking of words when I need to but I must first conjure up an audience or sit down to journal.

Before these kinds of interpretive posts, I thought the idea of talking to one's self was just a metaphor.

I would expect LLMs to develop some similar non-verbal structure deep within their black boxes, but I know from my own experience that there's more to cogitation than language.

[everdrive]

Absolutely, and that's a good point. Have you ever read Temple Grandin's reflections on her thought process? https://www.grandin.com/inc/visual.thinking.html