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- Comment on Anon experiences a glitch 1 week ago:
The book Thinking in Pictures by Temple Grandin explains this well.
I THINK IN PICTURES. Words are like a second language to me. I translate both spoken and written words into full-color movies, complete with sound, which run like a VCR tape in my head. When somebody speaks to me, his words are instantly translated into pictures.
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When I was a child and a teenager, I thought everybody thought in pictures. I had no idea that my thought processes were different.
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When I do an equipment simulation in my imagination or work on an engineering problem, it is like seeing it on a videotape in my mind. I can view it from any angle, placing myself above or below the equipment and rotating it at the same time.
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I create new images all the time by taking many little parts of images I have in the video library in my imagination and piecing them together.
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To create new designs, I retrieve bits and pieces from my memory and combine them into a new whole. My design ability keeps improving as I add more visual images to my library. I add videolike images from either actual experiences or translations of written information into pictures.
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When I recall something I have learned, I replay the video in my imagination.
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Like me, the mnemonist had a visual image for everything he had heard or read. Luria writes, “For when he heard or read a word, it was at once converted into a visual image corresponding with the object the word signified for him.”
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It wasn’t until I went to college that I realized some people are completely verbal and think only in words. … When I invent things, I do not use language. Some other people think in vividly detailed pictures, but most think in a combination of words and vague, generalized pictures. … I used to become very frustrated when a verbal thinker could not understand something I was trying to express because he or she couldn’t see the picture that was crystal clear to me.
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Unlike those of most people, my thoughts move from videolike, specific images to generalization and concepts. For example, my concept of dogs is inextricably linked to every dog I’ve ever known. It’s as if I have a card catalogue of dogs I have seen, complete with pictures, which continually grows as I add more examples to my video library.
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My memories usually appear in my imagination in strict chronological order, and the images I visualize are always specific. There is no generic, generalized Great Dane. However, not all people with autism are highly visual thinkers, nor do they all process information this way. People throughout the world are on a continuum of visualization skills ranging from next to none, to seeing vague generalized pictures, to seeing semi-specific pictures, to seeing, as in my case, in very specific pictures. I’m always forming new visual images when I invent new equipment or think of something novel and amusing. I can take images that I have seen, rearrange them, and create new pictures.
- Comment on Microsoft patent describes in-game advertising triggered by boss fights, loading screens, and cutscenes 2 weeks ago:
I did not compare game developers to Nazis. I gave you an example where “just doing their job” is clearly not a useful defense. I was attempted to point out that “just doing their job” is actually never a good defense. It is not relevant to whether or not the job being done should be done.
- Comment on Microsoft patent describes in-game advertising triggered by boss fights, loading screens, and cutscenes 3 weeks ago:
I was not weighing in on whether or not adding advertisements is a bad thing. I was pointing out how flawed your logic is. “Just doing their job” is not a good defense for the job being done.
- Comment on Microsoft patent describes in-game advertising triggered by boss fights, loading screens, and cutscenes 3 weeks ago:
“Just doing my job”
-Some random Nazi soldier
- Comment on One of the lowercase m is actually an r + n, and the other isn't. 1 month ago:
I thought the opposite. I think the first one is rn
- Comment on Choose a major you love 1 month ago:
- Comment on Excellent rant 1 month ago:
By late May and June 2024, medical testing and veterinary specialists confirmed Charlotte did not have embryos, but instead suffered from a rare and fatal reproductive disease that mimicked pregnancy on ultrasounds.
- Comment on Peacock has ads when pausing a movie to read the text 1 month ago:
IPtorrents ftw
- Comment on That's just science 1 month ago:
I’m currently talking about tangible physical objects you see every day. I’m taking about lived experience. Most things you encounter are obviously a certain color, transparent, or some amount of reflective. The sky and butterfly wings whose material are not actually that color and pretty normal things to ponder.
- Comment on That's just science 1 month ago:
I didn’t disagree. It’s just that we don’t frequently encounter throwing microscopic bits of things into the air in our lives, especially early lives. It’s pretty normal to be curious about the color of the sky as a child, and it is not obvious that distance of air is what makes enough of a difference. I think you’ve entirely missed the point of my original comment.
To understand why the sky is blue and why butterfly wings are all sorts of colors even though the material itself is not that color is not something that is intuitive or easy to understand without a great deal of experience and prior knowledge.
- Comment on That's just science 1 month ago:
Most physical objects I encounter are the same color up close that they are far away…
- Comment on Rideshare Stimulator finally gets its genAI disclosure after much Saber-rattling, and it turns out the game also uses the tech for in-game music 1 month ago:
Yes, of course it is
- Comment on Microdosing 2 months ago:
Yeah, I think I missed the “micro-dosing” part…
- Comment on I must con(FeS₂), this sparked a laugh 2 months ago:
Makes sense to me. Thanks
- Comment on I must con(FeS₂), this sparked a laugh 2 months ago:
Hmm, I’m not actually sure. Are we also ignoring refraction and reflection because the path is straight between those? If we’re talking discrete photons, you may be correct about each segment in its path being perfectly straight, but I’m not a theoretical physicist.
- Comment on I must con(FeS₂), this sparked a laugh 2 months ago:
False because they are affected by gravity, even if ever so slightly
- Comment on Haha, yeah... 3 months ago:
Just to be clear, you’re an actual time-traveler and this is factual, right?
- Comment on Scan to Verify You're Human 3 months ago:
What are good alternatives?
- Comment on How do I re-establish peaceful relations with a family of crows? 4 months ago:
Haha, no worries. Naturalist makes much more sense.
- Comment on How do I re-establish peaceful relations with a family of crows? 4 months ago:
I’m confused. Naturism is a lifestyle and philosophical movement advocating for non-sexual social nudity.
- Comment on Flipper!! 4 months ago:
I hate it. I downvote every censored post.
- Comment on I hope this clears things up 4 months ago:
Very-stick spray cooking
- Comment on Hail math! 4 months ago:
Oh, I think you’re right. It took me a second for some reason, but yeah, you can nerd out academically annoy theater, and geek out as a fanboy/fangirl about math
- Comment on Hail math! 4 months ago:
Aren’t theatre-geeks geeks and math
-nerds nerds?
- Comment on Anon went to a birthday party 4 months ago:
That’s super nice. If you drive an EV and charge at home, $0.11 / kWh * 75 kWh = $8.25 for about 300 miles of range.
- Comment on Anon went to a birthday party 4 months ago:
Yeah, total cost is going to be at least $0.15 USD / kWh, and can be as high as $0.25 USD / kWh. I’ve lived all over the US and it’s never been less than $0.15 USD / kWh.
