In which I am apparently of two minds?
Oct. 11th, 2023 08:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brooksmosesThat was weird.
I was editing the previous post, and was adding a sentence starting with "I know", and had formed the words in the part of my mind that does the word-forming and where the "internal voice" comes from, but my fingers typed "I think".
That is clearly not a simple hit-the-wrong-key mistyping, or a spelling error. My perception is that I mentally formed the word "know", and I was aware of the shape of the spelling, and the roundness and sound of the "o" in the middle of it, as well as it being specifically the word I wanted. And what came out of my fingers was a related and entirely different word, as if whatever separate part of my mind is controlling my fingers was lagging behind and using predictive text to figure out what word to type next and simply made a reasonable guess and missed.
Which is probably not that far off of the truth, I imagine.
I think that this rarely comes up because often I think through the full sentence and then start typing, and I was typing sooner this time, and also the predictive text generator is pretty accurate.
But, yeah, that was weird to watch as it happened.
I was editing the previous post, and was adding a sentence starting with "I know", and had formed the words in the part of my mind that does the word-forming and where the "internal voice" comes from, but my fingers typed "I think".
That is clearly not a simple hit-the-wrong-key mistyping, or a spelling error. My perception is that I mentally formed the word "know", and I was aware of the shape of the spelling, and the roundness and sound of the "o" in the middle of it, as well as it being specifically the word I wanted. And what came out of my fingers was a related and entirely different word, as if whatever separate part of my mind is controlling my fingers was lagging behind and using predictive text to figure out what word to type next and simply made a reasonable guess and missed.
Which is probably not that far off of the truth, I imagine.
I think that this rarely comes up because often I think through the full sentence and then start typing, and I was typing sooner this time, and also the predictive text generator is pretty accurate.
But, yeah, that was weird to watch as it happened.
