I’m curious, for those interested in Neuralink type things: why do people assume that the brain can generate thoughts and intentions faster than speech? 

Speech: 125-150 WPM
Typing: 65-75 WPM

Wouldn’t we have evolved some level of parity whereby we more or less think in language at roughly the rate of speech?

Design and software at Apple. Also into AI, philosophy of mind, ethics.

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Ok, let’s take it that speech stumbling is a mechanical constraint over a mental one. What’s the gain? 10%? Also worth noting there are some people who never stumble, from what I can tell, take an Ed Witten.

I think for a lot of people, myself included, thoughts to speech is a “translation” that takes effort and often planning / practice. Speech stumbling seems to be just one piece of evidence for that.

The question is whether the thing on the other side can understand your thought or if the “stuff of thought” is some intrabrain structure that cannot be intelligible without first becoming language (interbrain).

Yes, it is by definition simply a neural pattern that likely leads to many (perhaps simultaneous) output actions. I don’t think language has to be the only thing for interbrain connection though.