Inner Voice
Can you hear yourself reading this? Most people can. That inner voice—quiet but constant—narrates thoughts and decisions. Some minds work without it, using images or instinct instead. Others lose it through trauma or stroke, a condition called aphasia, where language breaks down entirely. AI now reproduces that voice with eerie fluency—posing questions, reflecting, revising its own output, as if thinking aloud. If a machine can echo our mental voice without ever thinking, what does that say about the voice itself? Read more in Is It Thinking?.
