There’s a question on AskMe that asks extroverts to describe their decision processes, whether they repeat positive thoughts to themselves, how they can just do things or “be in the moment.” I posted a response that I’m putting here just in case it gets deleted from the site:
Um, extroverts don’t have an interior life. “Deciding” is not something they do, it’s just a word they assign to explain their actions to others post hoc. They have “mental processes” in the literal sense, but not what you or I would call consciousness, the reflective passage of mental processes before an internal executive.
Of course, the tragedy of this question is that it won’t elicit true answers from extroverts. The language that they’ve acquired by acculturation mimics an inner life, and they will blithely describe their “decisions” and internal processes as though their experiences are just like yours or mine. This is not dishonest, exactly, since lying requires forming an intention with regard to another mind. It’s just pattern-matching, a survival strategy to fit in a society whose language appears to talk about some interior “mind.”