# Do we even know what consciousness is at all? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [December 18, 2024, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-even-know-what-consciousness-is-at-all/1011812 "2024-12-18T08:42:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 46
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2024, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-even-know-what-consciousness-is-at-all/1011812/46 "2024-12-18T17:45:23Z")
> [@solost](#): > > Not to hijack a thread that was created in order not to hijack another thread, but I didn’t quite get that argument, or claim, that some people do not have an internal monologue. Doesn’t everybody?!? Isn’t that in fact the topic of the thread this one was created such as not to hijack it…? (Told ya it’s self-reference all the way down!) > [@Do you have an inner voice?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-an-inner-voice/1011680/1): > > I’m sure this has been done before. I’ve read this in the past: some people do not have an inner monologue. I came across it again today, based on a social media question about reading silently to yourself. This person was claiming that he didn’t hear the words in his head: he just visualized the story. Others were baffled. They would explain that they would read the words, hearing them in their head. Dialogue would have inflection or an accent. And if a passage didn’t sound right in thei… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-even-know-what-consciousness-is-at-all/1011812)._