Leaderboard

This thread is just bizarre, to be honest. I am autistic, and have been involved in the neurodivergence community for quite some time, both on a local and an international level. Aphantasia is a relatively common comorbidity for people on the spectrum; I personally know 3 (maybe 4) fellow autistic people who have this, and my social circle is by no means large. Even among the general neurotypical population, this isn’t rare - there has been a study conducted on this only a few months ago: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1053810021001690 Evidently, aphantasia and its opposite - hyperphantasia - are very much real. Claiming otherwise isn’t just ignoring the evidence, but - and that’s much worse - it is dismissing and invalidating the suffering and challenges of those who have it, because this has a very real impact on people’s lives.

Let`s say your`re a very sensitive person that picks up everything in your enviroment, but you never sensed that anything was made from him, or that you can sense him also, an higher being, I know a god can in theory, do anything he wants, even hide himself, I guess, but how is it really possible to hide himself that well and when you look at a rock, for example, it doesn`t look like it`s made by someone? How can someone make something and hide himself 100 %, there`s always a signature of you if you make something? I`m a nature-person myself and very sensitive, and I tried to look at rocks, for example, and see if it`s really is made by someone, but, I wouldn`t say things in nature looks dead exactly, but not like it`s made of someone ether..

One has to wonder how they got the hump-backed bulls, mammoths and wild horses into the cave to pose for them? And prehistoric plains-people, forest dwellers and nomads - how did their minds work?

Modern physics has degraded into the study of Nature's grandeur rather than focusing on one specific type of biological machinery capable to study it, albeit with difficulties. Of course, the latter is important as well. "We" who? We rather test it. "We" who?

Just a few clarifications: 1. A 'speed' of particle is not well defined. The uncertainty principle relates rather position and momentum. 2. Position is a three-dimensional vector in space, say along x, y, and z axes. Momentum also is a three-dimensional vector. The uncertainty principle relates position and momentum of a particle along the same axis. Its position along axis x, for example, and its momentum along axis y can be measured at the same time. 3. Position and momentum along one axis cannot be measured simultaneously because there is no such state in which a particle would have a definite position and a definite momentum along one axis. This inability is a matter of particle states rather than that of measurements.

I don't know about that; there is no evidence. (See? When there is no evidence either way, one does not draw a definite conclusion.)You might just be in denial and protesting too much. What I do see evidence of is the syndrome where people object to things that are in no way objectionable or of any detriment to themselves, the way you have been objecting to aphantasia. That is the condition to which I was referring. I haven't named it yet, but it's obviously a subspecies of hypercriticalism.

(with apologies to Bob Dylan) How many roads must a pangolin walk down Before it can learn how to roll? Yes and how many miles must an armadillo cross Before it can end its weary stroll? The answer my friend is rolling in the wind The answer is rolling in the wind.

Given there are hundreds of papers that include study of persons with aphantasia and collection of data (again, PubMed will be helpful to you), your bold assertion is the one for which evidence is needed. Here's one of many research papers.... https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35691243/ Simply pounding the table won't get you far with people in the sciences.

I think the context was clear. One cannot universally assert what other people experience or don't. Your incredulity is not sufficient evidence to justify your position. Also, why must it be a 'condition' when it's just a different neural architecture in reality. The absence of said function may lead to other constructive abilities to evolve through necessity. Neuroplasticity is a thing

According to my calculations Mars having a Scale Height of 11.1km means that we are only 30km away from reaching 0.7 bars of air pressure from the Northern Basin or Hellas Planitia. Can we deflect a comet or more to the same spot on such an elevation on Mars to excavate 30km? Then the water from the comet can produce a liquid water lake for us since it will be within the Armstrong Limit now and we can introduce algae and plant life in cheap greenhouses to slowly terraform Mars as a micro climate via photosynthesis to convert the CO2 to O2 slowly. The comet the size of Hailey’s would also contribute 1% to the Martian atmosphere with gas. While negilgible on it’s own if this becomes a regular occurance, 100 comet strikes will double the Martian atmospheric pressure and air density. This also means the future Micro Climate Craters can gradually be shallower and shallower eventually only needing to be 15km deep in the future. Could we deflect enough comets to excavate 30km from the Northern Basin where it’s-7km from the datum? Or maybe from Hellas Planitia? We could settle at the bottom of such a cavity and use airships for transportation without risk of explosion in the CO2 atmosphere, we could also live without the need of airlocks at our doors to maintain an air pressure bubble within the Armstrong Limit and we will have supply of drinking soda water and water for rocket fuel via electrolysis producing both breathable oxygen gas as well as hydrogen for rocket fuel and airships. We wont need full pressure space suits just flimsy stratapause type ones. I have attached concept diagrams/illustrations with my numbers, please check them out but ignore the drill hole and anything related to drilling because I found out that Tzar bombs alone won't dent Mars enough to excavate the depths required. But Comets would because they will have 1.2 million Tzar bombs worth of kinetic energy. Please share your thoughts with me!

Of course Neuroplasticity is a thing, But I don't do that. My incredulity is sufficient enough, The condition is not real, Even though it's not established as a disorder, but the condition is not real, because it's not recognized and there's no evidence has found in the condition.

Well, I'll say it's not a real phenomenon, Since there is no evidence of it, A lot of people form invisible images is real, People having trouble forming mental images is real, but Aphantasia and the inability to form mental images is not real.

There's no inability to form invisible mental images, Invisible images is when 100% of people don't actually see mental images because they don't see it with their actual eyes. the word ''image'' and ''images'' in the brain means mental representation, but not visual representation in the mind, so therefore, A lot of people form invisible images in their brain. There's a several papers but not hundreds of them, but there's still no evidence, so therefore the phenomenon is not real and I'm sorry if I'm pounding the table. I don't have aphantasia, I even If I don't see visible mental images, I don't have it and I don't how forming visible mental images work or look like, The phenomenon is not real. While a lot of people form invisible images when awake and only form mental images in dreams. All people think in representations of things like me and people think in concepts like me and form invisible images without forming visible mental images like me. All brains are different whether they brains form visible mental images or invisible images without visualizing visible mental images, All people think, but all people don't visualize visible mental images. All people don't think in words and sentences, They think in representations of things without forming visible mental images, concepts, but they don't visualize visible mental images, but they form invisible images when they don't see mental images. Sorry for fallacious reasoning, I'm ending this thread now because the phenomenon is not real and there's no validated diagnosis on it, there is no evidence of it, so it's not real nor recognized phenomenon. There will be no further replies on this.

It's not a claim, and I'm not wrong. The phenomenon is not real, I'm ending this thread now.

Because hearing songs in your head is just different than mental representations. 100% of people don't form mental images is possible, A lot people form invisible mental images without visualizing is possible as well, but the phenomenon Aphantasia itself is not real and there's no evidence, I'm tired of talking about this, Let the moderators delete the thread, I'm leaving the thread, now.

Well, I don't want to get into another flame war with another senior poster by pointing out that "Now you’re just making stuff up" is a perfect example of "not a single word of supporting logic or evidence", or the fact that a phrase means something doesn't imply that someone isn't using it for empty rhetorical purposes, so ... thanks for chatting, guys. Have a nice day.