The senenence you just wrote was autocompleted by your brain. The thought automatically came in your mind. Even solving math prblems are autocompletion. The brain automatically generates the thoughts. You think you generated it. But in reality it's just an autocompletion process that was trained through your lifetime and the generations before through evolution.
You're projecting. I don't program much of anything by habit -- I stop and think, store snippets and choose. My brain doesn't Ctrl+Space through sentences like a preacher going through a well-worn illustration. I stop, consider, discard, and rework.
Many people have more pattern-forming brains than I do -- everyone notices before me when something has happened two weeks in a row or something they expected to happen didn't happen. My brain just doesn't try to predict.
Don't have 1.5 hours to watch a video, but strongly disagree. Autocomplete selects from a list of previously-selected choices or choices that are made available by the context you're in. "Thinking" purposefully varies the context each neuron is firing in so that it has a chance to make a connection that's _different_ from all the ones it could complete automatically.
There are people who talk to find out what they think, and those who must think before they can talk. You sound like the first type telling the second everyone is that way.
> There are people who talk to find out what they think, and those who must think before they can talk. You sound like the first type telling the second everyone is that way.
The sentence you just wrote, it came to your mind automatically. The thought appeared. You think you created it. But did you had any other choice? Could you have refused to not have that thought come to your mind? No right. That's the whole point. The thouths keeps coming in your mind. You can choose to ignore some and focus on some. But the brain keeps generating it. Mostly based on the environment and information you are consuming.
I would recomend taking a few minutes and watching the video. I an happy to engage in a healthy debate once you watched it. He explains it much better than I do. If you have ever heard Sam Harris talking you know for sure that he is not someone who keeps saying out whatever comes to his mind. Also he is a nueroscientist.
By autocomplete I was talking in the context of how GitHub copilot works. It doesn't merely recomend code snippets. It modifies the snippet according to context and all like human brain.
If you bank on your brain being the better autocompleter, I got very bad short to mid term news for you.