[menotyou]

Russel Hurlburt differentiates between

- Inner Speech: Inner speech is the experience of speaking words in the person's own voice, with the same vocal characteristics (timbre; rate; inflection for commas, question marks, etc.; pauses; accents; stutters; etc.) as the person's own external speech, but with no external (real) noise. In its pure form, the experience of inner speech is identical to that of external speech except that the mouth does not move and no external production of sound is produced.

- Partially Worded Speech: Partially worded speech is the experience of speaking in one's own inner voice, except that some substantial number of the words that are being spoken are absent from awareness. Thus the person has the sense of speaking, and is directly aware of the vocal characteristics of that speaking: rate, inflection, timbre, rhythm, and so on. Furthermore, many of the words that are being spoken are present directly to awareness, precisely as in inner speech. However, some of the words are absent from the stream of speech. Space is "reserved" for these words, as if the words will be added at some later time.

- Unworded Speech: Unworded speech is the experience of speaking in one's own inner voice, except that there is no experience of the words themselves. Thus the person has the sense of speaking, and is directly aware of the vocal characteristics of that speaking: rate, inflection, timbre, rhythm, and so on

- Worded Thinking:: Worded thinking is the experience of thinking in particular distinct words, but those words are not being (innerly or externally) spoken, heard, seen, or voiced in any other way.

- Unsymbolized Thinking: Unsymbolized thinking is the experience of thinking some particular, definite thought without the awareness of that thought's being represented in words, images, or any other symbols.

https://hurlburt.faculty.unlv.edu/codebook.html

[yencabulator]

Unsymbolized is a weird choice of term. I specifically mostly think without words and cannot form "realistic photo" images in my head, but I am most definitely using symbols.

If I have to make a considered choice from multiple alternatives, I can imagine[1] them as undescribable objects (not anything matching the real world) imbued with all their meanings, and I can observe their properties such as one is cheaper and the other takes longer as if they were properties like weight or color, and I can mentally rearrange them around in a virtual space. These things are clearly symbols representing the alternatives.

[1]: Visualize seems like the wrong word. These things might not have actual shapes, colors, etc. Spatialize?