>The cube I'm "picturing" in front of me, though, has no visual component at all. Quite because that is not how the brain works, when imagining something we me

>The cube I'm "picturing" in front of me, though, has no visual component at all. Quite because that is not how the brain works, when imagining something we merely instantiate a generic of that class, it has no visual component although it has attributes, some of which may convey a visualization - the cube is red, the cube if oriented in the cavalier elevation, you describe it yourself as being "in front of (you)" in what regard could you consider this to be true even if it were inside of your head? Through language we have been convinced of something that simply is not true, nobody wilfully hallucinates (internally or otherwise), to be aphantasiac is not to be special but to be aware of one's consciousness in a way that most people seemingly are not. Of course it is self-diagnosed, even a pathological rubber stamp relies entirely on self-reported symptoms. Interrogate anyone on the subject of their visual imagination long enough and you'll eventually bump up against inconsistencies or otherwise reluctant admission that they don't "see" anything.