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    1. Rolf Degen‏ @DegenRolf 1 Jul 2019
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      Individuals with aphantasia, the inability to form mental images, are shocked and dismayed when they get their head around the fact that they are lacking a faculty that others have. https://neurocritic.blogspot.com/2019/06/the-shock-of-unknown-in-aphantasia.html …pic.twitter.com/MiM3zeMBjI

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      Rolf Degen‏ @DegenRolf 2 Jul 2019
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      The images we summon up in our mind's eye are not authentic, vivid pictures, but more like the shadows of the real world cast on Plato's cave. https://s3.amazonaws.com/academia.edu.documents/30754191/SelfUcs-100923b.pdf?response-content-disposition=inline%3B%20filename%3DSelf-Ignorance.pdf&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAIWOWYYGZ2Y53UL3A%2F20190702%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20190702T083042Z&X-Amz-Expires=3600&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Signature=7fc1f3821284bc05255bc10efbaab590ff2bf1588b306f98542cecdaba565ebe …pic.twitter.com/kyfY3HU93M

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        2. dribnet‏ @dribnet 2 Jul 2019
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          another hypothesis for no performance difference: perhaps everyone has the ability to form mental images; those who self-report with aphantasia instead have a form of blindsight which allows them to respond to internal visual stimuli that they cannot consciously see.

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        3. Alan Kendle  📚 🧩 👨🏻‍💻‏ @alan_ken 2 Jul 2019
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          Interesting thoughts 💭 I wonder how that theory works for the other senses? As my #aphantasia means I have no ability to store or recreate any of the 5 senses 👨🏻‍💻

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