Many times I was thinking about speech as genetically fixed property of humans: how it can be harmful in its fixation, how it can be an obstacle to the subsequent development up to the present. The thinking is non-sequential as we observe. Whether it is simultaneous, I do not know - at least it is not surely parallel on the level of consciousness - but certainly it is not linear. Obviously the internal voice makes it linear for a short time and then it slows down the thinking as well. It may be, of course, that there are simultaneous thoughts meanwhile. Indeed, surely there are. What makes the thinking a simultaneous process, apart from ideas of Jung's collective subconsciousness, and the likes? I see one case when parallel effects operate in the thinking; when the visual information is obtained and processed. I read somewhere that visual information is amounts to more than 80% of all information obtained from our environment, and the order of this information is not linear, so a non-sequential orderliness can still develop in our thinking.

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