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Three things:

1. Great essay; I may assign it to my students.

2. Do the people without internal monologues talk more than people without them? I know someone who doesn’t have an internal monologue, and she talks about things she happens to notice more than other people.

3. Some biological males claim they “feel like” a woman. I’ve always dismissed this as confused; I don’t “feel like” a man. I know I’m a man, because people tell me I’m one and I can observe my own penis, which I do several times a day. But how do you “just know” the past if you have no images, sounds, smells, etc.?

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