Re:Humans Aren’t Mentally Ready for an AI-Saturated ‘Post-Tr...
by mrtranscendence on Thursday June 22, 2023 @04:15PM
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> By default, while I read something there's no auditory element at all.
I wouldn't characterize how I read -- which as far as I know is normal, but who can tell! -- as narrating to myself. Rather, it involves the sensation of somehow pronouncing words without necessarily hearing them. I can do this much faster than I could narrate the text explicitly.
I can also read without either narrating or pronouncing, but I find that it cuts down comprehension noticeably.
- I do get visual dreams. That's the only time I have a visual imagination; that, or if I'm on the verge of sleeping.
- If you say "pink elephant", I've got the concepts of elephant, pink and so on in my head. I can 'see' the geometry in a way, but it's totally abstract. Think of it like a pink elephant in a game where the renderer is off, and you won't go far wrong; all the information is there, and I can use it, I just don't see anything. Not as a hallucination, and not 'off to the side' either.
- I absolutely do hear songs in my head. Aphantasia usually only refers to visual imagination.
- If I want to hear it in a German accent, I do. By default, while I read something there's no auditory element at all. If I'm reading a book, I'll usually narrate the spoken sentences to myself and not do so for the other text; it's a matter of choice. Narrating it slows down my reading a lot, to the speed of fast speech.