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Chain of thought seems very specifically like an instantiation of the System 2 thinking of the System 1 and 2 thinking Daniel Kahneman popularized.

Is it clunky in that it's a verbalized/languified version of system 2 thinking, and clearly humans do some non-verbal version too?

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Some humans apparently only or almost only do non-verbal thinking. It’s called anendophasia.

Sounds like philosophical zombies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie

Maybe, I wouldn’t know. I just find it fascinating that other people have such a radically different way of experiencing thought. No idea what it’s like.

“For example, if a philosophical zombie were poked with a sharp object, it would not feel any pain, but it would react exactly the way any conscious human would”

Doing non-verbal thinking has nothing to do with not feeling pain, I don’t think it sounds like philosophical zombies at all.

I am one of those "humans", allegedly. ;)

How do you deal with things like mental math or "thinking something through"?

Do you find this study to be accurate or inaccurate in any ways?

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38728320/

Pdf seems available here: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Not-Everybody-Has-an-I...

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