Robert Zenhausern

On “High School Education, Aphantasia & Anauralia”

Does your daughter have trouble now? Always think, if it's not broken, do not fix it. I have exactly the same capacity as your daughter, and I can expect to be weak in spatial relations and sense of direction. My thinking usually consists of talking to myself or discussing. I have no images or sounds, all I have is words. Ask your daughter how she thinks. One advantage I have is that I find it easy to converse with AI. Given the way the world is going, that may be a very valuable skill. Check it out. With respect to school, be alert that she might find geometry difficult.

On “The Mind's Voice”

Arranging your thoughts. Can you say more. I know we have unconscious thinking (I will sleep on it) but I have never experienced it. Maybe you?

On “The Mind's Voice”

You are dealing with the question of whether audio and visual aphantasia run together, and you show no, but I have no visual or auditory. You are the first one who spoke about arranging thoughts. I think there is unconscious thinking (I will sleep on it) but I have never experienced thought on that level. Can you say more about rearranging?

On “On the topic of: Are aphantasic minds similar to ChatGPT?”

When you have no visual or auditory imagery, thinking must be in words and I must use my words carefully. Those who can use imagery in their thought may have an advantage because one picture is worth a thousand words. But when it come time to share thoughts, those images have got to be turned into words. But I started with words, no translation needed. But getting to the main point, I do think like AI and my habit of using words carefully make my prompts more effective. I enter into conversation and we discuss what to do. And we do it. Then we can put out a prompt engineer report so other can do it automatically. I consider those two gifts of aphantasia.

On “Can't Visualize An Apple? Try This Apple Illusion to Experience What Others See”

Negative afterimages are a function of the sensory process of seeing. I am an aphant, and I see very well. Aphantasia is the inability to recall a memory in visual form, even though you can recall all the information about the person

On “Are You a Visualizer or Conceptualizer? The Ball on a Table Test”

The brain processes abstractions and when we need to make those abstractions concrete if we want to share them with others. Some think of those abstractions in visual and some in auditory thoughts. And then there are aphants like me, who must speak their abstractions.