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Subject: Re: the apple test
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"john larkin" <jl@glen--canyon.com> wrote in message news:8gp8nj9oj4doomp7fkc7akclnkn8e18mj1@4ax.com...
>
> Close your eyes and imagine an apple in front of your face. Can you
> see it? In detail, in color? Can you rotate it on any axis and see it
> moving? Can you look down on it from the top and see which way the
> stem points?

Haven't we been through this before?

>
> Some people can visualize the apple, some can't.

Or so they say.
There's no way to know what goes on in someone else's head.

> Some of the can't
> folks are writers, artists, healthcare providers, programmers. Their
> brains apparently process words, not images.
>
> Seems to me that a circuit designer should be able to visualize
> circuits, but maybe not.
>
> One guy I talked to today can only imaging the apple floating above
> his head, and can't manipulate, or really much see, it. He's a very
> good programmer.
>
> I suspect that half of the people that we think are rude in
> supermarkets, or bad drivers, aren't so much ill-mannered as they
> can't visualize spatial situations or mentally model trajectories.
>