Speculations on Consciousness: The "attention" space carved from short-term RAM where analog parallel subconscious goes digital-serial (& layered) within the neocortex. That "serialized" voice in your head. Ape's short-term RAM can hold many more simultaneous parallel thought objects in RAM than humans. If shown a collection of objects, they're much better at recalling them and their relations to one another. We "focus" on serializing and layering the multiplicity stream and so can usually recall only a limited number of the objects. Autistic humans may be less limited in this regard than neurotypical thinkers. This "distraction" by language is acquired in humans from childhood and forms the foundation for neurotypical mental/ neural development structures. Why Russian orphans neglected in early childhood seem "retarded" without all the linguistic distractions of attentive parents.
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