Comment by big_toast
13 hours ago
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?
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
“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.
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.