"Aphantasia" is bullshit
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People who claim to be able to visualize things- even simple and ubiquitous things- can't actually do so:
>In the 1970s, scientists showed that Americans were surprisingly bad at remembering visual details of pennies, one of the most common physical objects available for study. But a group of psychologists from the University of Los Angeles wondered if that weakness applied in today’s logo-saturated environment. So they put 85 students (only 11 percent of whom did not use Apple products regularly) in a logo-free room and asked them to draw the Apple logo and rate their confidence in the drawing on a scale of 1 to 10.
>The results were underwhelming. Only one participant of 85 drew the logo accurately, though seven other participants drew it without major errors. And when they were asked to pick the real logo out of a lineup of eight options, only 47 percent of participants passed the test. Though Apple users were slightly more confident in their ability to spot the real logo, they were no more confident than PC users when it came to actually drawing it.
>In another experiment, the team asked 26 undergrads (93 percent Apple users) to rate their confidence about how well they could recall the Apple logo before and after drawing it. Though they found no significant correlation in pre-drawing confidence and actual ability to draw the logo, the participants’ confidence in the logo they had drawn afterwards was strongly indicative of the logo’s accuracy (or lack thereof).
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/can-you-draw-apple-logo-memory-180954505/
If people cannot even visualize the Apple logo, which is something simple and two-dimensional (so they should have no problem drawing it), how can they possibly visualize an actual apple, in three dimensions, with all its detail. Take a close look at an apple and you'll see it's incredibly complex. Computers struggle to render an apple, yet you think you can do so with your brain?
>In the 1970s, scientists showed that Americans were surprisingly bad at remembering visual details of pennies, one of the most common physical objects available for study. But a group of psychologists from the University of Los Angeles wondered if that weakness applied in today’s logo-saturated environment. So they put 85 students (only 11 percent of whom did not use Apple products regularly) in a logo-free room and asked them to draw the Apple logo and rate their confidence in the drawing on a scale of 1 to 10.
>The results were underwhelming. Only one participant of 85 drew the logo accurately, though seven other participants drew it without major errors. And when they were asked to pick the real logo out of a lineup of eight options, only 47 percent of participants passed the test. Though Apple users were slightly more confident in their ability to spot the real logo, they were no more confident than PC users when it came to actually drawing it.
>In another experiment, the team asked 26 undergrads (93 percent Apple users) to rate their confidence about how well they could recall the Apple logo before and after drawing it. Though they found no significant correlation in pre-drawing confidence and actual ability to draw the logo, the participants’ confidence in the logo they had drawn afterwards was strongly indicative of the logo’s accuracy (or lack thereof).
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/can-you-draw-apple-logo-memory-180954505/
If people cannot even visualize the Apple logo, which is something simple and two-dimensional (so they should have no problem drawing it), how can they possibly visualize an actual apple, in three dimensions, with all its detail. Take a close look at an apple and you'll see it's incredibly complex. Computers struggle to render an apple, yet you think you can do so with your brain?
