For people who equate LLMs talk with consciousness of humans, we don't really need an inner monologue or language to function.

https://theweek.com/articles/463962/possible-think-without-l...

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/oct/25/the-last-gre...

https://www.iflscience.com/people-with-no-internal-monologue...