📝We verbalize/visualize thoughts to activate our brain “from outside”

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Observations on thoughts

We usually verbalize or visualize our thoughts (“internal voice”). My theory is that this happens to activate the language/image processing parts of our brain.

Supporting arguments

• From Weinschenk₂₀₁₁: the visual cortex is more active when we’re imagining a thing than when we actually perceive it.

Q

• What are the implications of this?

  • (?) This “design” helps to reuse our brain parts.

  • (?) Thoughts are generated by another part of our brain and they are very similar to outside dialog.