[FRIAM] mental imagery

[Nicholas Thompson]

I’m sorry for the misprint. The correct term is aphantasia.

It took 15 minutes with a handful of people at thuam  for the categories to break down horribly. My prediction was based on no great insite. I had divided the world up into picture people and word people assume that our word.  I claimed no wisdom here, only prejudices I seem to be a.-side myself
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On Nov 6, 2025, at 1:02 PM, Prof David West <profwest at fastmail.fm> wrote:

Yes, please, what Eric asked.

I would expect most people on this list to tend towards the "hyper," not the "apha."

davew


On Thu, Nov 6, 2025, at 10:38 AM, Santafe wrote:
> That’s interesting, Nick (on limited time here, but just for a while)
> 
>> On Nov 6, 2025, at 11:19, Nicholas Thompson <thompnickson2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Given the work that many of you do, many of you are candidates for "aphatasia"
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> Can you say more about why you expect a correlation?  This is not an
> association that would ever have occurred to me.
> 
> Eric
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