Post #41731
July 31, 2015, 08:54:36 AM
I kind of had my idea of what's going on written out but it got too.. complicated and thought provoking.
What it comes down to is, in my head I perceive my thoughts as a stream of words. Words are composed of letters, letters can be typed. So, a system can be conceived wherein you think the word, decompose the word into letters, and then tell your fingers to type each one in sequence. This would be very simple.
However, there was an error in which a syllable and a word were exchanged for ones that sounded similar. If, in fact, this error would consistently produce exchanges of similarly pronounced words or syllables, then somehow what the word sounds like must factor into whatever process occurred between when I decided to type a certain word and when it was typed.
The only way I can think of the sound factoring in is if there's something in the brain case that is 'saying' the words, and something else that is 'listening'. So, when I'm typing or pretty much doing anything I'm just talking to myself and then other bits listen then do it.
Seemingly inefficient in the case of typing.. but since speaking and listening are used so frequently for other things, it makes some sense to use speaking and listening to transfer info. Like using HTTP, even though it's tremendously wasteful even on paper.
I suspect that I'd notice the same thing for reading... I read a word, it then gets 'spoken' then 'heard' and at that point I perceive its meaning. Would have to come up with a test.. wherein something you read got mixed up with something phonetically similar in your head.
