This is why I’m optimistic that attempts by tech bros to create devices that can read minds will fail. Everybody created their own brain software. Deciphering it will require at least 3 new scientific disciplines.

As a qualia, this is very hard to communicate. I wonder if there’s a genuine, measurable difference here, or if what I think of as ‘visualising’ is the same as them thinking of ideas and feelings. Nobody like, has a second vision they use, it’s just… remembering a sight as if you’re looking at it now.

I can hold one image like that in my mind and focus on it for a full 3.5 minutes without interruption. By harnessing this level of concentration I have learned to see without my eyes and can read the front of the playing card while looking at the back.

Yeah I’m a 1 on the scale. I honestly thought everyone could visualise like that, until I joined study groups in high school.