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by Auracle 53 days ago
There’s a significant portion of the population that doesn’t “see” anything in their mind’s eye when reading.
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Clickety_clack propably wasn't referring to people with aphantasia not seeing the story unfolding while reading the book, but the book itself: We predict that the thing we hold in our hands is a book entity, and then we use our sensory perception to affirm or change that prediction. We don't continuously parse a 2D array of pixels and interpret that as as a book every frame.