Most people can literally visualize
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I mean but it can’t be JUST like seeing , that’s why it’s the “minds eye”
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Yep, apparently it pretty much is
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Do you mean to tell me that most people can literally have at will the brain state that is otherwise produced involuntarily by seeing (presumably) real objects out in the world ?
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I still can literally hardly belive this 🤯🤯🤯
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wait i don't believe this is what people mean when they say they can visualize. i think there are two different visual spaces, the "actual" visual field and the "mind's eye," and visualization refers to the latter. i think i ran a poll about this
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some people claim to be able to superimpose arbitrary images onto the "actual" visual field but afaict this is a much rarer ability
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can't find a poll but short discussion here
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there are (at least) two different “spaces” at play i think. psychedelic visuals are happening in my “actual visual field.” the rest of the time when i say i’m visualizing something it’s in my “mind’s eye.” like the diff between hallucinating vs. remembering a song twitter.com/_holyweather/s…
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there's like tests for aphantasia and literature on it... your analysis seems like shitpost half-assery tbf :D
from how they describe it, I think normies can actually see fairly hi-fi reconstructed remembered scenes in visual field
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the tests i looked up are about the mind's eye so it seems like they still recognize a distinction between the mind's eye and the visual field?
Doesn't seem like this is stuff you can sort out through casual introspection and twitter chats and informal undefined terms like "visual field"
the "visual feed" is a deep stack of neural layers starting with retinal cells that can be pwned at any level, not a cartesian theater
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The "mind's eye" is a really bad term/metaphor that is cartesian theater with extra steps, not a trustworthy frame
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