Sara Imari Walker

No, I think most of us do because I think a lot of us, you know, construct words or visuals in our brains.

But it's super interesting when you have people that don't do that, like like Lee Cronin that I work with a lot.

And, you know, he's the person I originally assembly theory is chemist.

Like he doesn't have any visuals in his brain or like language in his brain.

And it's super interesting talking to him because he's like completely and utterly brilliant.

But I think like his mental architecture is really different.

And I love working on

deep foundational questions because I think when you talk about these deep ideas and you talk and maybe this is also why people like psychedelics because if you're not if you're not like trained at the sort of frontier of like Intellectual debate, you know, like where do you have these kind of experiences?

but the kind of I'm talking about is like you have really thought about how reality works and like you have an architecture in your mind about what you think and

fundamental about the nature reality because you're asking this particular scientific question and I think some of my best discussions with some of my colleagues have been you know those kind of discussions and you really realize how people's brains are so different very very different so different what is the estimation there's some percentage of us that do not have an inner voice

Yeah, I think it's like 4%, but I don't know.

Oh.

Well, I think it's hard to report, though, because people don't even know they don't have an inner voice, or people don't know they do have an inner voice, because you don't know what it's like to be in someone else's mind, so everybody just thinks their mind is normal.

Well, this is one of the things I'm really excited about, these neural enhancement technologies, because I think we really underestimate the diversity of human minds.

It might be the most diverse things on this planet, or actually just what's going on in our heads.

Or colorblind is also interesting.

Yeah.

Crazy.

Yeah.

And like people that have a major shift in that, like I read this Oliver Sacks story once about this person got hit in the head and then they could only see the world in black and white.