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I understood your original argument, maybe I just did a bad job describing what I disagree with. In this post it's this:

> Conversely, if you don't have conscious access to conceptualization, you end up thinking that "thinking" always involves "thinking out loud", because "thinking out loud" (verbalizing) is the only way you have to query your conceptual layer. You literally only become aware of your own thinking after the thought is already pretty far along

What I'm saying is that even if you do have conscious access to verbalisation stage, the more you force yourself to let it be handled subconsciously, the better at communicating quickly and effectively. This is what I meant by autopilot.

Spending active conversation time on conscious verbalization seems to me as inefficient as verbalising words and "speaking them out" as you read a book, usually known as subvocalization.



Oh yeah I agree with that. I think the conscious access is primarily important for self-training. So I would expect somebody with conscious access to 1. be better at vocalizing, 2. almost never actually need to use their access to correct a decision.

I tend to think of consciousness as the "debug mode" of the brain.




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