My confusion was slightly different. The parent comment was the top ranked comment yet grayed and continued to remain gray after I upvoter. About your comment,

My confusion was slightly different. The parent comment was the top ranked comment yet grayed and continued to remain gray after I upvoter. About your comment, I am very because I am not sure where I myself fall. My mental imagery is certainly not so strong that I can claim with any confidence that I have one. My wife, on the otherhand claims strongly that she can see things in her minds eye and I have ample evidence to believe it. Can those with aphantasia do rough sketches of some familiar object from memory of the object ? There is a loophole in the task though. One can translate the visual imagery into words and remember them. Then one can sketch using the remembered words, not that different from the workings of a deep autoencoder. It really comes down to the nature and geometry of the latent space. Is it a topological space with a topology less boring than a discrete topology. Is it spatial/geometric or symbolic.