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Cake day: June 20th, 2023
  • Sunoc@sh.itjust.worksto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•ruletationEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Jelly. That sounds really entertaining!

    But that’s the part that really baffled me when I learned that people can “actually” see stuff in their mind: it feels that if I could see something, I would gain access to more or unsolicited information about the object or the scene.

    When asked to think about rotating an apple, my brain goes “yes, an apple, I know the concept well. Rotating it is very realistic and doable.” and that’s it. If I could actually see it, I would be able to tell the color, tell the change in position of the stem, maybe there is a small leaf, idk; but that’s not part of the “question” and thus feels really weird to me that people can do that and extract or extrapolate information.

  • Sunoc@sh.itjust.worksto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•ruletationEnglish
    5·
    2 days ago

    Aphantasia is the inability to “see” or “hear” in your head. While it’s surprising to learn that people think differently (both for people with or without aphantasia), it has almost no consequence for daily life, except maybe for making it more difficult to remember past events.

    The wiki gives a pretty good presentation of the phenomenon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia

    It only started to be studied recently; and the “visualizing a red apple” has become a meme on that topic.

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