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@DawnyBrat
"Well done Tom for your level headed response. As an aphantastic, my experience is that I have far more ability to imagine things than those who focus on visualisation. Why would I want to give my skill up just so that I can rotate an apple in my mind? (Half) joking apart. Having had to listen to many neurologists recently (as part of a course) the narrative in biology and health sciences seems to be neurological differences are bad. There is apparently only one way that we are supposed to function as humans, everything else is problematic. That to me is denying that life (and evolution) is about change and adaptation. I get the impression that far too many think we have reached the end of evolution (to paraphrase Fukuyama). Weird, given the concept of the end of history has not really turned out to be a stellar prediction either ...."
"Tom, That was a brilliant (and necessary) response. Beautiful, articulate, and extremely well reasoned. Whenever an article like the original gives the impression that they protest too much—then it always says more about the author than the issue. In this case a desperate need for any sort of superiority, and using, as you nicely debunk, inverse logic. I could be argued that aphantasics may be clearer and thus more creative thinkers because their minds are not trespassed upon by unbidden senses, which thoughts are often cliched, stereotypical or personally biasedl. And anyway, in architecture form follows function; and function can easily be conceptualized by aphantasics. Conversely, the vivid visualizer who approaches innovation using form first is likely to come up with the concept car that never gets built, or the clothes of the catwalk that never get worn. More power to you."