philh comments on A Less Mysterious Mindfulness Exercise - Less Wrong

24 Post author: Gabriel 18 September 2012 11:33PM

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Comment author: RomeoStevens 19 September 2012 01:26:28AM 0 points [-]

can you imagine just a marque of words scrolling by?

Comment author: philh 19 September 2012 02:43:02AM 0 points [-]

I can't. I can maybe-sortof-vaguely imagine a marquee, but I can't put words on it. I don't know how to imagine words except by thinking them.

(The extent to which I can imagine a marquee is: I can't see anything, or even "see" anything, but I sort of get an impression of a banner held between two poles. Similarly if I try to imagine a field, I sort of get an impression of something green and spiky. The impressions are very weak. I don't even know if I'm actually imagining these things, or just imagining that I'm imagining them, or if there's a difference.)