Many of my mental images seem to be weirdly both precise and vague at the same time. Easy to do stuff with, but hard to pin down.
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Replying to @willbuckingham
What would "pin down" wrt a mental image look like? A hardcopy print out?
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Replying to @willbuckingham
I'm not sure that statement is consistent with the phrasing of your initial question.
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Replying to @Jayarava
Maybe, tho' I'm not sure it isn't. What I mean is that I have no idea what this hypothetical hardcopy print-out would be.
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Replying to @willbuckingham
I'm still not sure what you are trying to get at.
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Replying to @Jayarava
Either this is weird. Or I am. Possibly the latter. Or I'm overthinking and need to go and do something more useful with my time.
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Replying to @willbuckingham @Jayarava
There was a lot of empirical work on this in the 80s in cognitive psychology, consistent with your phenomenology
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I vaguely remember neuro imaging results from ~5 years ago too. Don’t know the current state
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of the field, but may be relevant if you want to take it further. Mostly I discount cognitive science as nonsense
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but my recollection is that these results seemed pretty solid (if rather disappointingly deflationary)
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Replying to @Meaningness
Thanks for all this
@Meaningness I had a sense there might be. I should look into it.@Jayarava0 replies 0 retweets 0 likesThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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