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Re:Severely deficient autobiographical memory in healthy adu... by atemerev on Sunday October 06, 2019 @09:59AM (#21172052)
How it is integral? (I have aphantasia). I don’t see anything in my daily life that would require the capability of visually representing events of the past. I remember the facts and circumstances, and even some visual “contours” or traces, but it is a far cry from seeing a picture like I see the reality.
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Re:Severely deficient autobiographical memory in healthy adu... by TravelAndFood on Sunday October 06, 2019 @10:17AM (#21172169)
I assumed, past tense, that it was integral, and with this new information I realize it is not integral, and now I'm curious about it.

(technically: I never heard anyone say they could not do this until now, but I have heard people say they CAN do this (including me). So as far as I knew all my N sample size of humans was positive for this, or at least not negative, previously indicating to me that the ability is "integral" to being human.)

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