People do a ton of thinking, all the time. Even dumb people. Not thinking about something that you’d usually think about can therefore be quite noticeable.
For training people to notice thoughts, I might start with getting people to notice sub-subvocalizations—the thoughts you have quickly, faster than speech, that are easy to forget. Then just put people into situations like picking a type of cookie to buy and getting them to remember and think about their thoughts. Some small group exercises would work well here, like sharing of thoughts in group and then picking some to share with class.
Then once people can notice their thoughts, it’s time to start getting a broad view—how much thinking did they put into things? What thoughts can they list, and how does this correlate with their subjective feeling? How much time did it take them to start and stop thinking new thoughts? Once people are decently calibrated we can start moving into very slightly touchy subjects, maybe. The subconscious associations test might also be useful to illustrate sub-sub-thoughts.
People do a ton of thinking, all the time. Even dumb people. Not thinking about something that you’d usually think about can therefore be quite noticeable.
For training people to notice thoughts, I might start with getting people to notice sub-subvocalizations—the thoughts you have quickly, faster than speech, that are easy to forget. Then just put people into situations like picking a type of cookie to buy and getting them to remember and think about their thoughts. Some small group exercises would work well here, like sharing of thoughts in group and then picking some to share with class.
Then once people can notice their thoughts, it’s time to start getting a broad view—how much thinking did they put into things? What thoughts can they list, and how does this correlate with their subjective feeling? How much time did it take them to start and stop thinking new thoughts? Once people are decently calibrated we can start moving into very slightly touchy subjects, maybe. The subconscious associations test might also be useful to illustrate sub-sub-thoughts.