Interesting Links for 13-06-2021

[andrewducker]

How to Mute Twitter's Suggested Tweets on Your Timeline

(tags:twitter )

Can't See Pictures in Your Mind? You're Not Alone. And Now We Know There Are People That See Particularly Vivid Ones.

(tags:vision imagination memory brain neuroscience psychology )

How the Web Became Unreadable

(tags:accessibility web fail )

Comments

[conuly]

Can't See Pictures in Your Mind? You're Not Alone. And Now We Know There Are People That See Particularly Vivid Ones.

I remember, a long time ago now, browsing an internet thread where somebody professed himself totally baffled that people could find questions like "How many points on the maple leaf on the Canadian flag" difficult. After all, if you've seen it once, can't you just picture it and count the points?

He was getting a lot of downvotes, but I was the only one to stop and explain that most people, in fact, cannot do that. That I believed he could do that, and that he thought his experience was typical, but that he was probably at the far extreme.

[andrewducker]

I had a discussion with someone when aphantasia first entered public discussion who was sure that people who said they could see things in their minds eye were just speaking metaphorically. And no matter how much they claimed to *really* see it, was sure they still meant *really* in a metaphorical sense.

[conuly]

It's so hard to get out of your own headspace!

This guy was much more reasonable once I was able to spell out for him that his experience is just that - HIS experience. I'm not sure he totally believed it on an emotional level, but he definitely understood it on a cognitive one, which is more than good enough.