70–90% of people have functional object impermanence, and at least 50% have no inner dialogue

no self awareness, no reflection. just impulse. me, me, me.

blasting music in public, talking at max volume, slamming doors. taking 20 mins to use an ATM when it takes me 30 seconds. and so on.

> at least 50% have no inner dialogue

I'm not sure I trust this. A quick search finds a Psychology Today article about it along with a single reference. I lazily suspect the result is based on some type of questionnaire.

The way "chain of thought" is used in LLMs to improve reasoning demonstrates, to me at least, the value of capturing intermediate steps in some rich compressed structure. Nothing beats that than words and sentences (see them or hear them). A lot of ideas can't be captured with just photos alone imho.

The irony of this comment.

A master Buddhist meditator deep in meditation might also have no inner dialogue.

I don’t really get the significance of this No Inner Dialogue meme.