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internal voice

Submitted by Crystal Leonard on Fri, 01/30/2009 - 10:55am.
So I've been thinking about the whole boxes inside boxes that create outputs without any inputs idea. I've always been fascinated by the internal voice. What is it? How is it created? Obviously the internal voice doesn't have a specific input that leads to its formation, so it's created by one of the boxes within the box. But is the internal voice an output? For the internal voice to happen does the nervous system affect anything outside of itself? It seems to be completely contained within the brain, so I don't think it is an output. But what is it? Inputs can stop in the brain and outputs can start in the brain, but what about things that are neither related to inputs or outputs? How does the model explain these things? How can we explain them?

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