There is a general agreement among Tibetan scholastics regarding the pedagogical value of debate in internalizing their tradition.
In psychoanalysis, this voice is called the superego, which Freud conceived as the infantile internalizing of parental authority.
Second, truly, when you have multi distractions, the TYPE of learning changes -- too many studies indicate that a quiet place of studying, without a barrage of distractions is much better for internalizing and really understanding concepts.
Processing is simply talking about the relationship - but doing it with the goal of coming to a consensus about any issues, and internalizing the solution - or, to put it another way, talking it to death.
The concept is known as "internalizing externalities."
