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From: john larkin <jl@650pot.com>
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Subject: Re: Visualizing
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On Fri, 6 Sep 2024 12:00:44 -0700, Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid>
wrote:

>On 9/6/2024 11:56 AM, Edward Rawde wrote:
>> I think the issue there is what it means to visualize.
>> I can temporarily replace the image of this computer screen with an image of an apple on a plate.
>> I can even make the apple lift off the plate if I want.
>> Obviously none of this is happening in front of me.
>> There has been no change in what's in front of me and what's in front of me is still being processed (you might say unconsciously).
>> I know this because I know I can safely drive a car while imagining floating apples.
>
>I think that is too literal an interpretation.
>
>Or, one should replace "visualize" with "imagine" as a more generic term
>as it isn't as literally tied to a visual representation.

It seems that different people do indeed have different abilities to
imagine in different ways, maybe visual images or words or other
senses.

People are very different.