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Re: No Visual Memory / Can't Visualize / "Blind Inside"
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08-21-2017, 02:30 PM | #12 | |
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Re: No Visual Memory / Can't Visualize / "Blind Inside"
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Weird. Never thought about that before. But faces? Nope. |
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08-21-2017, 02:49 PM | #13 |
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Location: Ventura CA
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Re: No Visual Memory / Can't Visualize / "Blind Inside"
I have built bicycles, but I have never built a person.
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08-21-2017, 04:08 PM | #14 | |
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Canada
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Re: No Visual Memory / Can't Visualize / "Blind Inside"
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Specialists like bird watchers can actually train their brain to leverage some of that specialized face-recognizing circuitry to help them with the subtle differences within their specialty - whether it be different bird species or different makes and models of car. I have yet to see a study on whether this impacts their ability to recognize faces - something I'm quite curious about.
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08-21-2017, 05:10 PM | #15 |
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Location: Wyoming, Michigan
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Re: No Visual Memory / Can't Visualize / "Blind Inside"
I am always awed at the ability of other people to recognize human faces. Like when I get recognized by someone from (weeks) (months) (years) before while I barely recognize my own family before they speak.
I can't intuit the cardinal directions, though navigating my way through a game where these always remain fixed relative directions on a screen is easy. I can draw several animals from memory, but not even "simple" inanimate objects like tables or coffee mugs. Most of these objects give me trouble even when I have one sitting right in front of me to use as a reference.
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08-21-2017, 06:33 PM | #16 |
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Ventura CA
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Re: No Visual Memory / Can't Visualize / "Blind Inside"
I just "recognize" people all the time and they are always false positives. Like every third stranger I see is familiar but unplaceable.
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08-21-2017, 09:08 PM | #17 |
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Upper Peninsula of Michigan
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Re: No Visual Memory / Can't Visualize / "Blind Inside"
Aphantasia sounds something like what you have.
I suggested earlier that this is quite similar to Innumerate or Non-Iconographic; there is a conceptual realm you just don't have access to. |
08-22-2017, 04:36 AM | #18 | |
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08-22-2017, 11:53 AM | #19 | |
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Re: No Visual Memory / Can't Visualize / "Blind Inside"
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Even our super specialized brain tissue can only do so much when there isn't really that much variability in healthy "undeformed" human faces. Though I've noticed I've gotten significantly better at recognizing people in the past couple decades. I don't know if it's a natural part of aging and experience or an offshoot of how I've worked hard to lessen my social interaction issues.
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08-22-2017, 12:32 PM | #20 | |
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Re: No Visual Memory / Can't Visualize / "Blind Inside"
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I kind of realize that my idea of a data space conscious A.I. would store memories linguistically not visually in effect having a lesser form of this feature.
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