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Covert Speech, Consciousness and AIs

A look at the inner voice in your head

Out of all the amazing (and mysterious) things your brain does, giving you an inner voice is one that I have always found fascinating due to just how strange it is, chances are you will be using it as you read this words and yet it is a purely private experience, so private in fact that there is little consensus as to whether we all have one, yet from the Neuroscience /Systems point of view it is more accesible ( at least theoretically ) and might even be portable to artificial systems and thus open a new generation of AIs, to cap things off, it is also a key component of consciousness as it sometimes manifests our thoughts and awareness.

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What exactly are we talking about…

The silent reproduction of speech, language or sound*