Talking to myself

So I was at work the other day, alone, and saw my coffee mug from the day before. I'd left it on a table. I said "Oh, so there's my coffee mug from yesterday". I said that out loud. I was alone in a building, fully aware I was alone in a building, and yet I had to say that out loud. Obviously I knew that it was my coffee mug from yesterday, I'd already processed that information in order to say "there's my coffee mug from yesterday". So why on EARTH did I say it? Why do we say things when no one else is around? Do we just like to hear ourselves talk? Does it make something more concrete if we speak it?

Who wants to assert themselves on the world more? People who talk when alone want to assert themselves on the world more.

-barrett 'n megan