Comments on: Guided by voices

By: sebastian

sebastian — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 19:06:49 +0000

Any speed reader knows you can think perfectly fine without subvocalization.

Game over.

I think is worthy to classify distinguishing both kinds of thoughts.

But telling people that they can’t think outside words is misleading (being generous).

Inspiration, sudden perceptions, sudden realization of patterns, etc.

This isn’t controversial at all.

@Ciarán well pointed

By: Ciarán Mc Mahon

Ciarán Mc Mahon — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:10:17 +0000

The internal voice is also linked to silent reading, both developmentally, at the age mentioned by Vygotsky, but also historically. The whole idea of an ‘inner space’ does not occur in literature prior to the decline of oral reading practices. Hence, our sense of a psychological interior, where we hear our own voice, is fundamentally linked to our reading practices

Full article (award-winning, if I do say so myself!) here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18196548

Pre-publication copy here
http://ciaranmcmahon.ie/doc/Origins_of_the_psychological_'interior'_-_evidence_from_Imperial_Roman_literary_practices.pdf

By: michael webster

michael webster — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:44:28 +0000

@Russell;

What intrigued me was the suggestion that the command voices were internalized as children.

By: russell hyland

russell hyland — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:48:06 +0000

I thought of Jaynes too. He posited that the hallucinated god voices were ‘overheard’ in the brain through some cross wiring between the hemispheres.

By: michael webster

michael webster — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 07:56:43 +0000

Does this give any support to Julian Jaynes idea that the early Greek gods were nothing more than auditory command hallucinations?