You start with the example of aphantasia, and then generalize to other mental building blocks. Then you propose that the mental building blocks lead to differences in various abilities. But is that true? I was under the impression that aphantasia research tends to find that it doesn’t make a difference for practical abilities.
Seems like it would be interesting to study more, generally, though. My immediate thought would be that I’d want to investigate whether the mental building blocks are independent of each other or not.
I’m not sure either to be fair. My friend with aphantasia says it doesn’t make that much of a practical difference for her. But it’s hard to compare since we don’t know the counterfactual.
I’m generally pretty uncertain how large the differences are but some discussions lead me to believe that they are bigger than I expected. At some point I was just like “Wait, you can’t rotate the shape in your head?” or “What do you mean, you feel music?”.
I think there are a ton of interesting questions to dive into. Probably a lot have already been answered by psychologists. I think the independence question is very interesting as well.
You start with the example of aphantasia, and then generalize to other mental building blocks. Then you propose that the mental building blocks lead to differences in various abilities. But is that true? I was under the impression that aphantasia research tends to find that it doesn’t make a difference for practical abilities.
Seems like it would be interesting to study more, generally, though. My immediate thought would be that I’d want to investigate whether the mental building blocks are independent of each other or not.
I’m not sure either to be fair. My friend with aphantasia says it doesn’t make that much of a practical difference for her. But it’s hard to compare since we don’t know the counterfactual.
I’m generally pretty uncertain how large the differences are but some discussions lead me to believe that they are bigger than I expected. At some point I was just like “Wait, you can’t rotate the shape in your head?” or “What do you mean, you feel music?”.
I think there are a ton of interesting questions to dive into. Probably a lot have already been answered by psychologists. I think the independence question is very interesting as well.