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Do such people experience differences in the study of topology?
by threatofrain 8y ago
Do such people experience differences in the study of topology?
- pool1892 8y agoi am a mathematician and i have aphantasia. i am pretty certain that not having to train not to rely on visual intuition was very helpful for getting into the kind of mathematics i do (set theory and very transfinite topology). on the other hand i am always completely amazed by what some people can "see" and feel in 3 or 4 dimensions. i have absolutely no access to this kind of spatial reasoning.
- the_solenoid 8y agoI have it, I cannot do (parts of) geometry, but everything else was very natural (only did math up to calculus)
- kaffeemitsahne 8y agoI remember an article about an architect who lost his mental visualization, he had no problem performing mental rotation puzzles. Can't seem to find the article, unfortunately. In general, from reading a lot about this a few years back (when I found out "seeing a picture in your mind" is not just a metaphor...) it seems aphantasiacs don't have any difficulty with any kind of mental task. Edit: here's the article, rotation stuff is in the 2nd paragraph on page 2. http://web.archive.org/web/20120615154334/http://discovermagazine.com/2010/mar/23-the-brain-look-deep-into-mind.s-eye/ http://web.archive.org/web/20120615154334/http://discovermag...
- the_solenoid 8y agoI wanted to be an architect or similar in high school - but I was always painfully slow at drafting. I also found throughout life I cannot easily transfer my ideas (like, if I have a concept for something, its not an image, its just a collection of ideas or concepts) into something physical (found out about aphantasia early 2018)