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Trans Species Okapi Ok, so in your head imagine an apple.
Now try spinning it.
What did you see?
So earlier I got into a discussion that involved being able to visualize something.
Personally I believe the ability to visualize is mostly genetic, and has nothing to do with I.Q. or Gender, it's just something some people can do, like folding your tongue in half.
Reportedly it can also vary how much you can visualize, like how some people can only visualize still images.
Thought?
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Man psychology is so cool, would have considered going into it if all the psychology majors I knew weren't narcissist lmao
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My theory is that it has a lot to do with how early you were exposed to language/speaking with others and the written word. Some people have the inner monologue and/or ability to visualize more strongly than others, and my completely anecdotal experience points to kids who were young readers and/or socialized early.
Like dog training. You gotta practice early and often, or you end up with a slobbering r-slur and disordered behavior.
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That checks out, I had a hard time making friends as a kids so I read a frick ton of books.
That doesn't mean I'm smart though, still like 50% dumber then the rest of the population.
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Same.
"Smart" is kinda relative though. There's very few geniuses who know absolutely everything, and still most of them are r-slurred in some other aspect.
Most people are smart in specific areas and dumb as a box of rocks in others. Such is life.
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I can think of an apple rotating in the sense that I can recall the colors and shape and change in an apple however I cannot visualize this as my eyes are already busy looking at things
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Interesting, I can but when I do my eyes just lose focus of what I'm looking at and I can't really tell you what I looking at ahead of me despite staring right at it
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Its over for can't visualize -cels
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I suspect a lot of it is practice. I have heard of people gaining internal monologues after reading out loud for long enough, and I know that people often lose abilities they had as babies that went unused.
I think people just get into habits of thinking when they are younger, and when their habits are weird but functional, they will end up with weird consequences, such as a lack of internal monologue or ability to visualize. Could be some aspect of a person's nature though.
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Yeah I agree, I think giving it a blanket statement that some people just don't have inner monologue is silly, and that it's like speaking where you have to keep using it or else it gets worse
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So I happen to be from the same Indian state (kerala) as this dude, and it doesn't surprise me he's racist to the rest of the indians, we're actually a pretty advanced society compared to the rest of India, with highest HDI (0.779), highest literacy rates (99%), highest post graduation per capita etc, and despite being 2% of the Indian population we contribute to 20% of remittances. We are also a proud communist state, also the only state to never have given a single constituency to the ruling hindu nationalistic party in our history, so you see we are a very educated society, pretty similar to Sri Lanka due to position and influence of the dutch and Portuguese from 15th c. Point is we have a justified superiority complex to the rest of the indians and we are not sexy Indian dudes
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