i remember being a kid and being FREAKED i could visualize things. I would visualize a pink heart on a black background and it wigged me the fuck out. I was like, where the HELL is this heart? WHY can I see it if it's not in front of me? whdat the FUCK is going ON
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what (if anything) did you conclude in the end?
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Sounds like some Wheel of Time thing Meditating on an image of a flame and feeding all your thoughts into it until all that's left is the fire
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I am pretty certain that you could divide people into 2 real groups where some had incredible imaginations (you) and some struggled to picture anything. (Me).
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Google "Aphantasia"
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If I can just make things up and visualize them as if they were real, who knows how many people throughout history have been doing so all along, and never knew the difference?
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Huh. When I imagine things it's usually impossible to mistake them for real. (Unless tired, meditating, hypnotized, they're just not that vivid & sense input dominates.)
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Have you read Dennett’s From Bacteria to Bach and Back? In Chapter 14, Consciousness as an Evolved User-Illusion, he ruminates on this subject. Why did it stop plaguing you, if it did? Developed a satisfying theory?
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The subject has the feel of the Cartesian Theater version of the “Plato’s Beard” problem in language. Namely, how do we manage to talk about things that don’t exist?https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato%27s_beard …
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