Yann LeCun does not possess an internal monologue

this just seems like some Wittgenstein mistake<p>&gt;&quot;thinking and reasoning require language&quot;<p>we are just going to argue about what thinking and reasoning are because the sentence is meaningless.<p>Clearly animals think and reason and dont have language.<p>Or clearly thinking and reasoning is a process of symbol manipulation contingent on language itself because nothing else provides the means to ground the symbols nor the rules to encode acceptable manipulations.

Call me crazy, but I think that an internal monologue is a &quot;you&quot; instance running beside your main instance.<p>The &quot;you&quot; is because &quot;you&quot; are a lot of smaller stuff instances of things running along in your brain.<p>Probably it&#x27;s common to develop this multiple &quot;yous&quot; and kept them happily running (may be with therapy some get to &quot;shutdown&quot; or &quot;suspend&quot; some &quot;evil&quot; &quot;you&quot; they have running and messing everything).<p>But some people don&#x27;t need several instances of themselves, and they just run one &quot;you&quot; thing. Hence, no internal monologue.

I wonder how many &quot;leaders&quot; in AI don&#x27;t have one, and therefor don&#x27;t understand reasoning the same way as others do who do have it (FWIW I have Aphantasia, although it doesn&#x27;t mean I can&#x27;t imagine - I just can&#x27;t see it).

I feel like this might explain (and validate?) his conservative stance towards generative LLMs leading to AGI&#x2F;ASI. What do you think?

I wonder if that characteristic correlates with greater math ability.