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An online anecdote about mentally simulating ChatGPT responses prompts debate over the psychological integration of AI

Commentators compared the mental simulation to the bicameral mind.

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isaacs@izs

New ai psychosis just dropped: return of the pre Bronze Age bicameral mind

6:47 PM · Jun 9, 2026 · 503.2K Views
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Many users mock the idea of mentally simulating ChatGPT responses internally as obvious or idiotic and react with rage and insults, while others praise it as an efficient thinking aid and useful starting point.

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Epic Fail Guy@EpicFailGuyEFG

@izs NPCs discover thinking by imitating ChatGPT.

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Pondering Self@PonderingSelf

@izs For those needing a simple breakdown of the bicameral mind.

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@izs …do you guys not talk to yourself as a way of thinking???

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shb@himbodhisattva

@izs @matt_emp "LLMs aren't conscious like humans, they're just predicting the next token"

humans:

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@izs He’s just discovered ‘thinking’… 🤪 God help us…

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osmarks@osmarks1

@izs What? GPT-4o did this for ages.

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Hanif Carroll@HanifCarroll

@izs Thanks for posting this! I hadn't heard of the term "bicameral mind", so I did a quick search and came across this helpful video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgTnoowcXDI

Very interesting theory.

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Eddi Spaghetti@EddiSpaghetto

@Valuable @izs Isnt it some crazy percentage of people report no inner monologue.

Like when reading a book they dont mentally pronounce the words

In general, most people are retarded

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@EpicFailGuyEFG @izs Can't wait for the discussions on whether people who think by simulating ChatGPT in their head are actually conscious or not

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@izs Just humans predicting what an LLM will answer. As the algorithm gets better we may achieve HGI and be as smart as any LLM.

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Prakash@8teAPi

I predict that over the next decade we get used to having AI voice in our heads. The “Singularity” is just the process of merging with this AI voice, implanting it as a BCI, then increasing bio-silicon bandwidth until we move onto the same substrate with the same accordances.

isaacs@izs

New ai psychosis just dropped: return of the pre Bronze Age bicameral mind

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Jason@starryblueisis

@Valuable @izs Yeah but most of us knew what an internal monologue was *before* using ChatGPT.

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@marro_bert @EpicFailGuyEFG @izs Westworld season 1. Bootstrapping AI consciousness by planting a human voice in their head. Now the NPCs are waking up thanks to AI voices in their head.

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IshayuG@GIshayu

@izs This is just conversing with the inner monologue (which some people have and others don't)

It's also known as the Rubber-Duck method.

It's hilarious that people now consider that a "chatGPT in your head". :'D

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thats purrfuckt@purrfuckt

@izs Is it really not obvious to everyone that the post is a joke? They are making the joke that you can just use your brain. Right? 🤨

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@izs Oh it never left, I have lots of thoughts about this.

LLMs are psychedelic technology.

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Eddi Spaghetti@EddiSpaghetto

@MyToastisNot @Valuable @izs No. There is plenty of academic research on this backing the claim.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/not-everyone-has-an-inner-voice-streaming-through-their-head/

https://hurlburt.faculty.unlv.edu/heavey-hurlburt-2008.pdf

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