I like to think that I have "hardware acceleration" for typing on QWERTY keyboards because I am so used to it that I do it unconsciously.
But when I smoke weed, I have to actively think about the position of keys in the keyboard in order to type coherent things. I have to type "by software".
The point is: maybe for some people, their spoken language is "hardware accelerated" and for others, thinking in words is too computationally expensive, so they resort to less expensive methods.
Or maybe it's the opposite. Thinking abstractly is the computationally expensive method but the improvement in decision making isn't worth the effort.
Disclaimer: I know absolutely nothing about psychology or neuroscience. I just like to think about it.
YMMV, but I find cannabis consumption requires that _pretty much every subsequent action_ be done at a conscious level for the duration of its effects. Reading, coding, speaking, typing, etc. This can occasionally yield interesting results by forcing you to think through minute aspects of everyday things - and sometimes by extension craft questions you might not normally think to ask - but at least for me it seems to disable the majority of unconscious "muscle memory" systems. "hardware acceleration" is a perfect phrase to describe them though!
It is the observation of linguists that some language processing is hardware accelerated. But hardware acceleration comes in a great many varieties, anywhere from having a slightly smaller partially specialized neuron group in the frontal lobe, to having genetically preconfigured sections in lower brain, to not needing the signals to travel to the brain at all, as demonstrated by headless chickens, and government officials.
But when I smoke weed, I have to actively think about the position of keys in the keyboard in order to type coherent things. I have to type "by software".
The point is: maybe for some people, their spoken language is "hardware accelerated" and for others, thinking in words is too computationally expensive, so they resort to less expensive methods.
Or maybe it's the opposite. Thinking abstractly is the computationally expensive method but the improvement in decision making isn't worth the effort.
Disclaimer: I know absolutely nothing about psychology or neuroscience. I just like to think about it.