Quote Originally Posted by tommo View Post
Yeah coz everyone doesn't do that on a daily basis or anything. It's one of the most founded things there is. I couldn't give a flying fuck whether this has been proven by neuroscience. If you think the internal dialogue is the actual thought.... I have no hope for you.
I suggest you begin a career in cognitive science, because you appear to be in possession of proof of one of the most crucial and contentious issues in the field. As you clearly consider yourself far more intelligent and penetrating than the combined thousands of experimental psychologists, linguists, philosophers, and neuroscientists who actually spend their lives researching these issues, you would definitely be an invaluable asset.

The inner dialogue is completely disposable. All you have to do is try it and see. Just stop talking in your head. You'll see it serves no positive use whatsoever.
Oh wait, you're actually sub sophomoric and incapable of conceptualising an even remotely adequate thought experiment. Glaring flaws include

1. Equating a meditative state in which one nullifies one's own thought processes to a state involving active and spontaneous thought.
2. Failing to consider that one may not be conscious of the mechanisms underlying cognition.
3. More generally completely unaware of the extremely well established pitfalls of introspection in psychology.

And it so obviously slows down thought because you have to "say" everything in your head after you actually think of it.
4. Apparently adopting a rudimentary Cartesian theatre (!) in which potentially parallel mental faculties are clogged up in a centralising unit.