[baumgarn]

Heinrich von Kleist – On the gradual production of thoughts during speech

is a classic german text from 1805 on this subject that I have always valued deeply

https://franxfiction.com/on-the-gradual-fabrication-of-thoug...

[nakedneuron]

Really interesting someone brings this up here. It's kind of an obscure little piece of text. But I always thought, yeah, this is more or less how we produce thought, and how LLMs operate, too.