Comment on People With Aphantasia Can't Visualize Anything. So How Do They Dream?
farmgineer@nord.pub 1 week agoWhy would I need to somehow ‘see’ where I put something? It’s data. My database doesn’t store pictures of things, it stores the information about the things. I put the keys on the counter by the door as I do 95% of the time I enter the house. I don’t need some picture for that.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 week ago
seems a lot harder to index a contextual bit on an optical database.
I remember everything through visual indexing. think of it like taking snapshots of my instruction set based on what I’m looking at.
decades ago I worked in a factory that had robotics involved. I got laid off. two years later they called me in to see if I wanted my old job. I came back and got back to work like I left for the weekend. leadership was dumbfounded. they never saw anything like it and asked me how I did it.
I explained it to them but they didn’t really believe me when I told them I have a mnemonic memory that works off visual indexes. if they had changed the UI for the robots, I would have needed to be trained all over again. since they didn’t, all my training had been triggered by the visual format of the interface.
thing is, I can trigger this directly as well. If I Imagine the UI I still remember the different functions and input commands to move those big fanucs, even 20ish years later.
my point is, for someone like me it’s difficult to imagine how efficient it would be to remember contextual information in basically text format.
not knocking it, it’s just…different.