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17 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 01 March 2008 11:58PM

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Comment author: diegocaleiro 08 September 2010 09:50:58PM 15 points [-]

No large N experiments. but Feynman in one of his autobiographies tests this with a friend. One of them hears numbers, the other sees them. They are unable to multitask within the domain they use to process numbers. I for one hear numbers. I can count while performing visual tasks. My father sees them. He cannot. He can speak and count, which I find amusing.

Comment author: Lomky 26 March 2012 02:11:01PM 1 point [-]

I can read and count, but not speak and count. While trying this out, I realized I can not count silently, but am always pronouncing the numbers in my head. I wonder if that is related?