This is very interesting. I am having trouble understanding the experience of imagining the 4x4 block of 16 blocks well enough to note that there are four interior blocks w/o red paint on them without picturing them.
I could imagine that this could be done with just logic (reasoning about how many blocks there must be in different categories, which is maybe how I would do it if the problem were more complex, or took place in four dimensions for example), but you said you had a diagram...
So it sounds like you did have mental imagery, it was just 2-d instead of 3-d.
But apparently that wasn’t very vivid, because you still had to do the haptic imagery thing. How vivid is the experience of this motor mental imagery for you? I’m wondering if I’m missing out on that in the way that you’re missing out on more vivid visual mental imagery.
This is very interesting. I am having trouble understanding the experience of imagining the 4x4 block of 16 blocks well enough to note that there are four interior blocks w/o red paint on them without picturing them.
I could imagine that this could be done with just logic (reasoning about how many blocks there must be in different categories, which is maybe how I would do it if the problem were more complex, or took place in four dimensions for example), but you said you had a diagram...
So it sounds like you did have mental imagery, it was just 2-d instead of 3-d.
But apparently that wasn’t very vivid, because you still had to do the haptic imagery thing. How vivid is the experience of this motor mental imagery for you? I’m wondering if I’m missing out on that in the way that you’re missing out on more vivid visual mental imagery.