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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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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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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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I'd basically look to neuroscience experimental evidence for this thing... stuff like visual cortex activation, blindsight, simultaneous awareness of eigengrau (the dark gray field you see when you close your eyes) and visual memory etc etc...
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