We swim in a sea of bogus narratives, attempting to carve meaning out of the purposeless and accidental—talking a great deal, but rarely having insight into our own true motives or any genuine links of cause and effect in the world around us.
The voice in your head exists because a long lineage of voices in heads very like it, stretching gradually back into prehistory, helped your particular line of ancestors to spawn a slightly larger progeny than the more taciturn primates down the road. That voice doesn't exist to help you discover truth. (As you may have noticed, most of what it tells you—like most of what the people around you say—is merely counterfactual, self-serving, platitudinous wish-thinking.)
As indeed with all aspects of your brain and body, your experience of mind and your internal narrative exist solely to help the molecules in your cells to make copies of themselves. It may be a happy accident of evolution that we can discipline those verbal faculties into reason and logic, which help us grasp (however feebly, tentatively and imperfectly) at truths about the world around us, but this does not necessarily come naturally, and it certainly isn't inevitable.
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