• Question: why can we hear our thoughts?

    Asked by gingamatt97 to Alan, Murray, Sarah on 25 Mar 2011.
    • Photo: Murray Collins

      Murray Collins answered on 25 Mar 2011:

      Wow – gingamatt….Hmm ..We are certainly interestnig creatures in that we can meta-cognate, I mean we can thnik about thinking and why we think. Having self-awareness means that we are aware of ourselves as individuals, which allows us to be aware and interperate our own thoughts. This ability seems to be restricted to large-brained social mammals, with there benig evidence that dolphins, and elephants and of course the other apes have a degree of self-awareness.

    • Photo: Sarah Thomas

      Sarah Thomas answered on 25 Mar 2011:

      It’s to do with the way that we think. Our brain is constantly processing thoughts and because the way we understand the world is through language, it makes sense that our thoughts are processed as speech.

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