It can be. 50bp is always equivalent to 0.5pp, but only sometimes equivalent to 0.5%. A % increase is dependent on relative change. The increase from 0.25 to 0.75 talked about in the article, for example, is a 200% increase, a 0.5pp increase, and a 50bp increase. The difference between 0.75% and 0.25% is not represented as a %. That is now how % is calculated.
The topic of conversation here is how the European Central Bank increased rates by 0.5 percentage points, which may also be stated as 50 basis points as a percentage point is 1/100th of a basis point. The European Central Bank did not raise any of its rates by 0.5 percent. The previous commenter, among others, merely mixed up percent (%) and percentage point (pp), is all. It's a common mistake, editorialized headline included.
Not only ancient people. The concept of a “foreign” inner voice exists in islam and is called vesvese in Turkish. It is commonly attributed to being deceit from satan and as a child you get taught to actively repress it.
I tried to record myself, to capture my inner monologue, and found it really painful to listen to. I'm also not very good at role play or impersonation. But a professional performer, like a priest or entertainer, has to do it more than just habitually, and their manners become adapted and people might affect a whole dialectic. Whereas children rather randomly babel and come up with unique manerism that are uncommon and consequently deemed unfit. Further, if you grant that deus ex machina could be a bodyless voice in plays and earlier temple ceremonies, it stands to reason that people would consequently spin these messages further and reanalyse their inner monologue as word of god, not the least to shift responsibility, e.g. to the uber-ich, in Freud's terms.
