Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Jan 1, 2020Most interesting thing I learned about myself in the last decade (thanks to that one post by the Facebook guy): I have aphantasia, which explains like 90% of my thinking.169126
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Jan 1, 2020The post. https://m.facebook.com/notes/blake-ross/aphantasia-how-it-feels-to-be-blind-in-your-mind/10156834777480504/…5335
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Jan 1, 2020It’s totally a superpower. All of you normies are trapped in your visual worlds of illusion.3229
Chris Clark@chrisclark1729·Jan 1, 2020Replying to @vgrDefinitely a superpower (I too have it), until you try and put together some Ikea furniture.11
Chris Clark@chrisclark1729·Jan 1, 2020Replying to @vgrI continue to blame aphantasia and pass the job onto my wife. 😯11
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Jan 1, 2020Replying to @chrisclark1729I’m pretty good at 3d conceptual thinking, though I don’t seem to do it via visualization