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Do you believe that everyone else thinks about grammar and consciously chooses the words they're using while speaking? Of course not. To quote Jeff Goldstein:
by hypochondricdev 2y ago
Do you believe that everyone else thinks about grammar and consciously chooses the words they're using while speaking?
Of course not.
To quote Jeff Goldstein: "The brain secretes thoughts like the stomach secretes stomach acid".
- xtrapol8 2y agoYou’re quite right there are lower and lower levels of cognition, far below the soft mailable conscious awareness. These can be gotten at and programmed through will, yet still full of mystery.
- RoyalHenOil 2y agoI am aware that this is the norm. It's not just language production; lots of things we do are done by seemingly unconscious parts of our brains, even though they feel like conscious choices we make. I am open to the possibility that these "unconscious" things we do are not actually unconscious, but are actually done by parts of our brains that are separately conscious — i.e., other entities that live in our bodies with us.