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From: Joe Gwinn <joegwinn@comcast.net>
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Subject: Re: Visualizing
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On Fri, 06 Sep 2024 07:53:46 -0700, john larkin
<jlarkin_highland_tech> wrote:

>
>
>I was driving and listening to the local mostly-annoying NPR radio
>station, but they had an interesting interview with a book author. It
>was about his novel or some poetry or something.
>
>What was interesting was his recalling a conversation that he'd had
>with his wife. She was takling about a plant or something and asked
>him to visualize it. He was astounded that she, or anyone, could close
>their eyes and *see* something they were thinking about. 
>
>I was shocked to learn that there are people who can't form a mental
>visual image.
>
>Close your eyes and consider a nice white ceramic dinner plate with a
>beautiful deep red apple sitting in the center. Can you see it? From
>the side and from the top? Do you see the stem? The colors? Imagine it
>slowly rotating? See the fruit fly?
>
>If the world is divided between people who can visualise and people
>who can't, that could explain a great deal.

There are definitely such people, and I've met them.  The example that
springs to mind was a History Teaching Assistant I met in college in
the 1960s.  It turned out that he had been an EE Undergrad, and
discovered that he could not visualize the electrons in motion, unlike
his colleagues.  This TA was wise enough to know that this was
crippling - he would never be able to compete with those who could
visualize electrons.  So he switched to History.

Joe Gwinn