If there was ever a tell that someone isn't a real person, wouldn't it be the lack of an inner monologue? Perhaps the Gnostics were onto something about hylics.

Everybody has one, if you don't get others internal monologues is your own limitation

>>81762962

>Everybody has one

no you're wrong

>>81762957 (OP)
They have very little inner-thoughts. They just react to things as they happen. If you try to plan things out to go well, they'll often say that you're overthinking things.
The question isn't whether or not they exist, the question is what to do with them.

isn't this just describing thinking?

>>81762957 (OP)
>hmm I will listen to my inner monologue for a second
>"hello, no thinky today c:"
Oh. okay.

>>81763194
>No, brain. Do the thinky. You belong to me.
>"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"

>>81762978
>how do I know?? bcuz daddy said so!!!
fuck off

>>81763214
Ad hominem. Just because it's a garbageslime-tier format of a post doesn't mean it's wrong.

>>81762957 (OP)
The biggest tell is someone who has no principals and only lives to avoid pain and chase pleasure. At that point they are just walking plants with no higher order thinking.

>>81762957 (OP)
Last guy is like me. He makes an important point, though: the pre-verbal (or non-verbal) thoughts are faster. I make a point to not verbalize my thoughts sometimes because while doing a line-by-line verbalized self debate is okay, I think it's genuinely better to just trust the non-verbal processing to be equally accurate and much faster. I use this as a kind of meditative practice, to "speed think" in a sense by holding back from going into word mode intentionally.

>>81763401
Is it anything like the gut feeling? I've spent some time developing intuition after ignoring and even rejecting it for too long. All of my thinking is still words, in fact retrieval is often triggered by the spelling of a word, and until I can retrieve the word the concept I'm trying to express cannot issue forth. The method of retrieval is by a series of letters for an infrequently used word.
To give an example, I can quickly tell if someone is a bad person or not at a glance. It's not a fully fleshed idea, but every time without fail it is verified soon after. The gut feeling is more like a color or pressure that is accompanied by thoughts, and the thoughts then guide my future actions and intentions when interacting with the identitied bad person. Good-dar unfortunately doesn't seem to work as well. Probably due to the nature of threat assessment. False positives when identifying a bad person results in little to no harm. A false positive when identifying a good person could be devastating.

>>81763456
The primal cognition pill is about realizing that ALL thoughts are gut feelings of a sort first. You can have an entire intuition and gut feeling based train of thought, instead of the single-shot method you're talking about. But you have to cut off that "thought" verbalization step, realizing that the conceptual material of each thought exists independent of and prior to the actual words.

>>81763456
>>81763599
i am a programmer and ill get an icky feeling about code and find the bug 3 hours later. like theres is something inside thats not necessarily me that is a millions times smarter than me