People who can't picture anything are rewriting the science of imagination
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Re: People who can't picture anything are rewriting the science of imagination
#2Rather unfortunate if so, as aphantasia has been known about since Galton discovered it in 1880.
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#3Aphantasiac here, happy to discuss or answer any questions
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#4I still think this is fundamentally about how difficult it is to describe qualia.
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#5I still think this is fundamentally about how difficult it is to describe qualia.
I think this is cope to avoid the realization that some people are walking around with drastically different life experiences.
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#6Aphantasia is fake. I can “see” when dreaming, ergo the brain simply (adaptively) suppresses the same when awake.
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#7Aphantasiac here, happy to discuss or answer any questions
What does you mother look like?
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#8Re: People who can't picture anything are rewriting the science of imagination
#9Aphantasia is fake. I can “see” when dreaming, ergo the brain simply (adaptively) suppresses the same when awake.
I don't see even when dreaming :)
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#10Aphantasiac here, happy to discuss or answer any questions
Does it apply to audio as well? If you think of a song you know well, do you feel like you "hear" the music in your head, as though playing back an audio file?
If you think of a movie scene you've seen, what is that like? Can you recount what was in it, even if you can't "picture" it? Or does this also prevent you from recalling the details of the scene?