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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (3 children)

It's funny, people make aphantasia out to be a huge disability but ironically that just feels like a lack of imagination on their part. The things where you actually need to see images instead of just abstract thinking are pretty rare.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

it's not a significant disability frankly, that's part of the reason it's only just now received a lot of study. It's more of a dysfunction than anything.

It is fundamentally a lack of imagination, we cannot imagine things, it's impossible. Ironically, it's quite helpful to some individuals, me in particular i really enjoy any sort of complex stated systems. I can really latch onto those and comprehend them pretty well. I can do artistic things for about fuck all though.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It is a lack of visual or sensory imagery, but not a lack of imagination.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

yeah, but a large part of imagination is being able to visualize something in your imagination. Otherwise doing things like 2 + 2 in your head would count as imagination.

Also technically, not visual/sensory imagery, just the ability to visualize things in your mind. But that's semantics so meh.