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by ergonaught 999 days ago
As someone with aphantasia, most of the replies here prompt me to think ugly thoughts about humanity. Judgemental, hateful, repugnant species. There's really no hope for the primate line. With any luck, some thoughtless company will engineer a replacement.

If only I could visualize that outcome.

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Well, the author of the article is not trying to sell you anything, so why don't you let the haters be haters, and give it a try. The best that can happen is that it might help. The worse that can happen is that you are going to "waste" some time. He miss every shot you don't take.
I've tried the technique (familiar with Win Wenger's work in general, have taught variations of the technique, etc). It improved many things, but did not give me voluntary access to mental imagery.

The article is fine; was fine when it was originally written.

For me, the worst would be to be able to visualise but find it distracting, annoying or traumatic. Or if I could only imagine dim and vague images: not helpful, but also impossible to turn off.
FYI incitement to genocide is a crime under international law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incitement_to_genocide

Go be a troll somewhere else.
I’d like to think that your remarks displayed a special kind of horrifying stupidity.

Unfortunately it seems all too common to qualify as special.

Says the person that wants to visualize the “end of the primate line”

Please keep this rhetoric localized to Stormfront or wherever you generally hang out online.