> This latest recognition of aphantasia as a neurological difference is only a decade or so old (although references in the literature go back to the 1890’s.)

> This latest recognition of aphantasia as a neurological difference is only a decade or so old (although references in the literature go back to the 1890’s.) The first time I heard about aphantasia I recalled reading someone, one of the semioticians I think, perhaps Saussure, criticizing Locke for talking about ideas as visual images in your head. "Of course we don't actually see the images," he wrote. At the time I agreed with him, but maybe he and I both have this condition. :-)