You say "apple" to me and I'm #1, glossy skin, insides, all that

And how in the hell does one navigate life, or enjoy a book, if they're not a #1?! Reading a book is like watching a movie. I subconsciously assign actor's faces to characters and watch as the book rolls on.

Yet #5's are not handicapped in the slightest. They're so "normal" that mankind is just now figuring out we're far apart on this thing. Fucking weird.

EDIT: Showed this to my wife and she was somewhat mystified as to what I was asking. Pretty sure she's a 5. I get frustrated as hell when I ask her to describe a thing and she's clueless. "Did the radiator hose pop off, or is it torn and cracked?" "I don't know!"

EDIT2: The first Star Wars book after the movie came out was Splinter in the Mind's Eye. I feel like I got that title. What's it mean to you?

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[–] [S] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

But is it a superpower if the ability hadn't been called out until the 21st century? That's what kicks my ass. We can be so radically different, on what to me is a fundamental cognitive skill, yet it doesn't make enough of a difference that the ancients didn't figure it out three thousand years ago!

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    Thoughts are a weird thing to describe. I bet it just never really occurred to anyone to discuss specifically what they see in their head when they think of a thing - everyone just assumed what they saw was the same thing everyone saw.

    It's like the theory that the color you see as green might not be the same color I see as green - how do you actually determine that?

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