We have hardware in the brain wired to recognize faces. For some people it’s not working too well, independently of the other abilities.
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Tikitimebomb@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
This one is a cluster fuck for me… I can visualize an object in my head and even to the point of placing it in real space in my hand and being able to rotate it. I cannot however, see your face in my mind after you have just left the room.
Don’t really know how that fits in.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
shalafi@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Face blindness (prosopagnosia) seems a different thing altogether, though you would think they’re related.
Tikitimebomb@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Thats so weird! As I was reading one of the other comments I realized that I can almost live in the fantasy world of a book, but no one has a distinctive face…
random_character_a@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Yep, this is my club. Also, I can only remember few faces of people I went to high school with. Others are just blurred to central attributes.
Other thing is, for long I noticed that peoples faces fall in distinct groups according to their appearence even though they are not related. I always thought that they had a similar distant ethnic background and that genes relating to appearance had a type of “quanta” that can’t be completely diluted, which causes faces to fall in groups.
Now I’m starting to realize that it’s just me and my face-blindness averaging my memories of peoples appearances, creating those groups.