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You're not really imagining visual scenes, the resolution just isn't there if you think about it. It's more like you're imagining low resolution encodings, whic
by hackerlight 2y ago
You're not really imagining visual scenes, the resolution just isn't there if you think about it. It's more like you're imagining low resolution encodings, which is definitely the smart and efficient way of doing it that evolution would choose over a wasteful full sim.
- ben_w 2y agoEncodings perhaps, but I assure you the subjective experience of the resolution is indistinguishable from my eyeballs.
- DiggyJohnson 2y agoIt sounds like you're subjective experience of visualization is wildly different than the average, then. I think I have an excellent imagination and visualization ability, but it doesn't compare to just looking out my eyeballs in terms of resolution or cognitive load.
- zdp7 2y agoLook up aphantasia on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia they have a sidebar describing the spectrum of the ability to visualize images. The highest level is considered photographic. The other side is the inability to visualize anything.