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by inigyou 2mo ago
Oh no! Cheap goods and services! Maybe some other governments will be smart enough to not let a massive influx of nearly free stuff make everyone materially worse off. In fact it seems like only a completely idiotic system would make peop
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by inigyou 2mo ago
They call it "flooding the zone", it's an explicit strategy
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by inigyou 2mo ago
A PZ says exactly what a normal human says, including the reports of mental imagery.
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by inigyou 2mo ago
It's selling you a product. It's spam.
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by inigyou 2mo ago
You are not aphantic. We can argue whether that's average or below average, but people with aphantasia can't do it at all. TFA uses the word "hypophantasia" at least once.
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by inigyou 2mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_hypnosis
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by inigyou 2mo ago
People have commented this a few times in this rather long thread.
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by inigyou 2mo ago
Hm, same for me, although my margin for error on how well I know this is now very wide thanks to this thread. I did think I had below average visual phantasia and I get songs stuck in my head all the time. I also read by imagining a voice (
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by inigyou 2mo ago
Yep. I remember doing an exercise where we would take a photo of something, divide it into 1cm squares (that's 0.4 freedom units) and then draw the same grid on a block of wood and copy it by chiseling one square at a time. The result
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by inigyou 2mo ago
I don't navigate by visualizing the road ahead, I mostly navigate by recalling what I saw on Google Maps. Yes, always with north at the top and if I rotate the map 90 degrees it'll be completely unfamiliar - I have tried that - I
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by inigyou 2mo ago
Oddly, it keeps shifting to cutting a slice out of the apple instead. But with a bit more focus, yes. Even with the specific peeler I have in the kitchen, which has a blue handle. Maybe I'm not actually below average.
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by inigyou 2mo ago
note that many autistic people (overrepresented on HN) have face blindness which is (probably) a separate thing. They don't develop the specific specialized circuits for recognizing facial features.
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by inigyou 2mo ago
If the concept of the mind's eye seems like a giant troll to you, you're either aphantasic or haven't connected the right dots. Can you remember a song? If so, can you do something similar with a picture?
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by inigyou 2mo ago
I don't know if everyone is like this, but low-res is not to be deemphasized. When another comment had a test about bicycles, I can see the shape of a bicycle frame, but I definitely can't see how many gears it has unless I zoom i
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by inigyou 2mo ago
A boy and his mother are in a serious car accident. The mother dies on scene and the boy is rushed to the hospital where he needs urgent life-saving surgery. But the male surgeon says "I can't operate on this boy - he's my so
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by inigyou 2mo ago
No, based on the description they are normally phantasic and are just quibbling semantics.
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by inigyou 2mo ago
Now I'm wondering if the mental focus that a trained mage requires to sustain an underworld portal, or any other spell, is the same feeling as an ordinary person in real life uses to hold a visualisation.
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by inigyou 2mo ago
Same here (I don't actually see the circle)
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by inigyou 2mo ago
That's how it went for me. I thought of the correct shape of a bicycle frame (I think I've seen this art thing before) but didn't "pull up" the little pieces like gears and seats until you actually mentioned them.
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by inigyou 2mo ago
I think when I dream it feels real, but upon closer analysis, it's about as unstable as when I imagine things. It's just overlaid with the additional semantic vector of "yes this is the real world and everything is normal&q
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by inigyou 2mo ago
Tell me you can still tell it's two separate layers though. You aren't actually getting visual feedback, you are combining the actual visual feedback from your eyeballs with the pseudo-visual feedback from your imagination. I woul
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by inigyou 2mo ago
After reading your comment I went to see the test. The scale shows the same picture in four different opacities, which isn't useful. The textual descriptions were more useful.
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by inigyou 2mo ago
No, it's definitely akin to imagining a song for me. It is not confusable with actually seeing things.
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by inigyou 2mo ago
I think for me it reduces distraction but otherwise has nothing to do with it.
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by inigyou 2mo ago
When I took psychedelics they were still in effect when I went to sleep and I experienced unusually vivid and strange mental imagery. They call it closed-eye hallucinations, as opposed to mis-seeing the world around you while your eyes are
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by inigyou 2mo ago
Can you post a second source for those of us whom Reddit blocks?
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by inigyou 2mo ago
It is definitely different from seeing something. I'd guess it activates a subset of the semantic level neurons that activate when you see a thing. There are no actual pixels. I also guess that something similar happens in dreaming. Wh
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by inigyou 2mo ago
Why do conservatives think trans people are everywhere?
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by inigyou 2mo ago
This makes me think of how everyone is born with the muscle to wiggle their ears, but if they don't discover it as an infant, it atrophies.
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by inigyou 2mo ago
Qualia can't be definitively proven.

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