Ah, I follow, though I'm not sure I agree with your supposition there. I think we have language that can communicate varying levels of interior imagery, but I do think the people who are aphantasic are at a disadvantage in imagining what other people have going on inside their heads. Someone with robust interior imagery can just ... imagine nothing, and while they might not get it exactly 1:1 with the aphantasic's experience the general idea is still conveyed, but the aphantasic has absolutely no frame of reference for vibrant interior imagery and has to rely on approximations to understand.
Sure, maybe "neurotypical" people would all have the same visualization ability, but I think if they could discuss the concept and their experiences enough they could reach a shared understanding of what their visualization level was.
I have an inner voice, but when I'm reading, if I'm reading something that meshes well with my brain, the inner voice is silent and I have a little movie going on in my head instead. This can be inconvenient, when my linguistic processing catches up to my imagination and I realize that there was a bit of clever wordplay or delightful phrasing I want to appreciate on its linguistic merits I have to go back and re-read it in inner voice mode instead.
I don't think anyone is saying that the ability to hallucinate at will is even on this scale, that would be some kind of 0 out of the 1-5. I can visualize in detail inside the confines of my mind, but nothing I imagine ever breaks containment and escapes into my perception of the real world. I can use my imagination to picture alterations to the real world, but this is easier if I close my eyes and imagine a scene that's the real world I was just looking at plus the alterations. The alterations will never appear in my visual field. I consider myself a 1, full apple.
I do sometimes get very mild auditory hallucinations, like perceiving indistinct voices or the murmur of crowds in white noise, but that isn't an active process, just my brain searching for signal in literal noise.
I've heard that some people with perfect recall/"photographic memory" can hallucinate at will, though, and that's how their recall works? I dunno, could be miscommunication along these same lines.
ok but inventing entirely novel forms of shit can rob the narrative of some of its ability to effectively critique the present day, concerns become abstracted beyond the audience's ability to relate to them
part of the reason cyberpunk has remained relevant is precisely because the things it critiqued in its early days are still present today
hey comrade, you mind throwing that under a CW? both for 🤡 and more prominently the SA mention?
Around here the shock comes from the fact that all the busses are 45 minutes late and will only drop you a mile from your destination unless your destination is the mall.
people create the fantasy of being a vigilante and install security cameras all around their house in the suburbs
using nextdoor is a major red flag for me for exactly this reason
i am not so interested in the philosophy and value system of that era
I think that stuff is important for understanding and contextualizing the events and conditions of those eras, so it's worth studying from that perspective. The guys who are like "Meditations contains all of the wisdom you need in life" are losers of the highest order though.
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Even with total chuds you can kinda wheedle your way into their brainworms by pointing out that crime increasing is just a media talking point to justify greater surveillance and policing of regular people.
I read this comment three times before I realized it was about nobility and not the baseball team. I don't even watch baseball!
4chan and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race