Isn’t it weird that we have a little voice in our heads? Like the one you used to read this.

You know that inner voice you have when reading, that mentally speaks what your eyes are reading? Tell it to shut up. - How do I improve my reading speed?

• When is it better to think without words? / HN - In the 1940s, when the French mathematician Jacques Hadamard asked good mathematicians how they came up with solutions to hard problems, they nearly universally answered that they didn’t think in words; neither did they think in images or equations. Rather, what passed through the mathematicians as they struggled with problems were such things as vibrations in their hands, nonsense words in their ears, or blurry shapes in their heads

see also

• The Voices
• So you think you’ve been implanted against your will?
• The Demon-Haunted World - normal, rational, intelligent people… can have fictional stories in their heads about how things work.