If you don’t mind my asking, why do you seem to know so much about inner dialogue, imagination, unwanted thoughts etc.? I have a special interest in all of that and wonder if you have some recommended reading a casual like me could check out to learn some more about it.
If you search for the NPC meme first (IE, know your meme). That's a concept usually based on gaming (Non Playable Character) and the hard problem of consciousness. Both of those can easily be found on wiki.
At some point in the meme people stumbled upon some research which isn't conclusive but that suggests some people might not have inner dialogue. That is, the inner processes that people experience that might constitute processes required for free thought.
That study isn't perfect but does raise a question about what we actually know about the inner processes if science shows that those we might typically experience are uniform.
Once you go down the road of what psychologists actually know about inner experience, what they have asked people "What are you thinking." and what they have collected then you're exposed to this.
There are quite a few video debates on it though nearly all tend to cover a few given angles at a time and don't give a big picture. Proof of NPCs tends to relate to the study that hinted at an absence of inner dialogue.
Inner experience might not always be the same problem as philosophical zombies but the term NPC can refer to a state arising from the absence of a number of different variations in faculties that can also be intermixed.
People can definitely be made to behave like NPCs. The NPC meme is in response to direct observation of people reciting often media provided or picked from the grapevine scripted dialogue to support their political position but otherwise aren't able to make proper cognisant debate in response to the person they're speaking too.
There is a strong suggestion that some people think less for themselves but also that what we're seeing is the difference between those who are intellectually lazy or otherwise incapacitated and those who are not.
Thank you for a thorough response.
If you don’t mind my asking, why do you seem to know so much about inner dialogue, imagination, unwanted thoughts etc.? I have a special interest in all of that and wonder if you have some recommended reading a casual like me could check out to learn some more about it.
If you search for the NPC meme first (IE, know your meme). That's a concept usually based on gaming (Non Playable Character) and the hard problem of consciousness. Both of those can easily be found on wiki.
At some point in the meme people stumbled upon some research which isn't conclusive but that suggests some people might not have inner dialogue. That is, the inner processes that people experience that might constitute processes required for free thought.
That study isn't perfect but does raise a question about what we actually know about the inner processes if science shows that those we might typically experience are uniform.
Once you go down the road of what psychologists actually know about inner experience, what they have asked people "What are you thinking." and what they have collected then you're exposed to this.
There are quite a few video debates on it though nearly all tend to cover a few given angles at a time and don't give a big picture. Proof of NPCs tends to relate to the study that hinted at an absence of inner dialogue.
Inner experience might not always be the same problem as philosophical zombies but the term NPC can refer to a state arising from the absence of a number of different variations in faculties that can also be intermixed.
People can definitely be made to behave like NPCs. The NPC meme is in response to direct observation of people reciting often media provided or picked from the grapevine scripted dialogue to support their political position but otherwise aren't able to make proper cognisant debate in response to the person they're speaking too.
There is a strong suggestion that some people think less for themselves but also that what we're seeing is the difference between those who are intellectually lazy or otherwise incapacitated and those who are not.