Research has linked the ability to visualize to a bewildering variety of human traits—how we experience trauma, hold grudges, and, above all, remember our lives.
Paywalled, but interesting topic. Afair, being able to generate internal vision in the same way as our inner voice, is called “Phantasia”. “Aphantasia” is the lack of that ability. I learned ~6 months ago that everybody else could actually close their eyes and see a thing in front of them. However, somehow I can still sense movement and some vague 3D shapes of stuff, and that seem to be enough for me to ‘navigate’ most information.
OC I felt cheated out of ~50 years of opportunities to conjure unwanted images up in other peoples heads ! Cock, sweat, anal, tits, puss, a hot turd between toes, and a million other image generating references that I could have casually snuck into conversations in the most in-appropriate situations … what a waste of a great supervillain power ! “The Nasty-Visions-Man” was not to arise :-(
Anyway, I’m curious to how blind-born people imagine or sense the physical world. They must have their proprioception and a 3d world model, so they should be able to sense movement/shapes etc like me, and imagine how others move. We all have a dozen+ internal representations of the outside world, and besides the potential for human mis-communication etc, it also hints at how to build a full artificial brain, AGI.
Added archived link, and I can’t really visualize things by closing my eyes and thinking about an object either. Yet, when I dream, my mind can conjure up visual imagery no problem.
I’ve read that there are experiments showing that blind people do end up repurposing their vision centres to work with the sensory information they get.
Paywalled, but interesting topic. Afair, being able to generate internal vision in the same way as our inner voice, is called “Phantasia”. “Aphantasia” is the lack of that ability. I learned ~6 months ago that everybody else could actually close their eyes and see a thing in front of them. However, somehow I can still sense movement and some vague 3D shapes of stuff, and that seem to be enough for me to ‘navigate’ most information.
OC I felt cheated out of ~50 years of opportunities to conjure unwanted images up in other peoples heads ! Cock, sweat, anal, tits, puss, a hot turd between toes, and a million other image generating references that I could have casually snuck into conversations in the most in-appropriate situations … what a waste of a great supervillain power ! “The Nasty-Visions-Man” was not to arise :-(
Anyway, I’m curious to how blind-born people imagine or sense the physical world. They must have their proprioception and a 3d world model, so they should be able to sense movement/shapes etc like me, and imagine how others move. We all have a dozen+ internal representations of the outside world, and besides the potential for human mis-communication etc, it also hints at how to build a full artificial brain, AGI.
Added archived link, and I can’t really visualize things by closing my eyes and thinking about an object either. Yet, when I dream, my mind can conjure up visual imagery no problem.
I’ve read that there are experiments showing that blind people do end up repurposing their vision centres to work with the sensory information they get.