Are your math visualizations in color?
Mine are all black-and-white, presumably in imitation of diagrams in textbooks. Just realized from this @St_Rev tweet that I may be missing an important tool.
(Does synesthesia play a role here?)https://twitter.com/St_Rev/status/1189949262307766272?s=20 …
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Hey, as someone who is acquainted with these vagueish kinda kinaesthetic kinda-images and (I assume) with yidam visualization: how do the former compare with the kind of visual horsepower that is needed for the latter? Is it even the same kind of animal?
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Interesting question! Different traditions put different amounts of emphasis on the clarity and intensity of yidam visualization. The Aro gTér less than most, which is good for me because on a scale of 0 to 100 my ability is maybe ~50.
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It's kind of more the dynamic relationships among the shapes that do the work than the things themselves, I think. Like something pressing on something else
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I notice this most clearly when doing simple arithmetic (probably because it's so overtrained). E.g. 3 and 7 have a sense of a shape that "fits together" to make 10, and them getting pressed together is a fair description of how it feels.
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Vague-ish visual/kinesthetic seems roughly like what I have. I only have a weak ability to visualise anything (not just in maths), not aphantasia but not clear enough to be tracking whether things are in colour or black-and-white.
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I see the times tables as coloured (2 is white, 3 is yellow, 4 is blue, 5 orange, 6 green and so on)
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