/sci/ - Science & Math

>>15794527
Also it might interest you to know that most people who claim to be able to see a bicycle in their mind's eye actually have no clue what a bicycle looks like, i.e. what are the parts and in what way are they connected. This proves they are not actually seeing an image of a bicycle with the fidelity they would probably claim, but rather just a very vague representation of a bicycle concept.

>>12787895
It reminds me of how many people apparently have no idea what a bicycle frame actually looks like..
These discussions are always the same, people who use visualization think that it's impossible to do certain things (drawing, chess, whatever) without conscious visualization.
>>12793646
I would say I'm pretty close to the aphantasiac side of the spectrum but I have noticed that usually when I think of a scene I do have a specific vantage point.
>>12789283
>It's much harder to be an aphantasic artist though, because you don't even have the picture in your head you are trying to recreate, only a general idea of the concepts/subjects you want to draw, an idea in its pure form is not a picture or a mental image
You just have to look at how some people who claim to have vivid visualizations are EXTREMELY BAD at drawing to know that it has no bearing on being an artist at all.