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'One of the creators of the Firefox internet browser, Blake Ross, realised his experience of visual imagery was vastly different from most people when he read a

'One of the creators of the Firefox internet browser, Blake Ross, realised his experience of visual imagery was vastly different from most people when he read about a man who lost his ability to imagine after surgery. In a Facebook post, Ross said: What do you mean ‘lost’ his ability? […] Shouldn’t we be amazed he ever had that ability? We’ve heard from many people who have experienced a similar epiphany to Ross. They too were astonished to discover that their complete lack of ability to picture visual imagery was different from the norm.' https://theconversation.com/blind-in-the-mind-why-some-people-cant-see-pictures-in-their-imagination-86849 https://theconversation.com/blind-in-the-mind-why-some-peopl...

psalminen 6y ago
Every aspect about the way people think is on a spectrum. There is also the split between those who have an inner monologue in their heads the those who don't. There's also studies showing these two populations astonished that the other exists.
- Judgmentality 6y ago
  ...there are people that don't have a monologue in their heads?
  - psalminen 6y ago
    I know, weird right? Here[0] is a link with some more information about it. [0] https://medium.datadriveninvestor.com/some-people-dont-have-an-inner-monologue-and-i-am-one-of-them-1c47a0e8b48a https://medium.datadriveninvestor.com/some-people-dont-have-...
    - Judgmentality 6y ago
      > So for myself personally, I see the words a person is speaking as they would appear being typed on the page of a computer screen and never once will hear the person’s voice speaking them, nor my own. This sounds like a perversion of synesthesia to me. This is like LSD. Do these people have strange accents like people born deaf?