AspiringRationalist comments on Words as Mental Paintbrush Handles - Less Wrong

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Comment author: AspiringRationalist 06 May 2013 03:37:35AM 0 points [-]

Your visualizations include such details? As the description didn't include such details, they're necessarily undefined - so why did you define them out of their uncertainty?

Because a visual image cannot lack these details, in the same way that if you are given the prompt "visualize a rectangle" and you do, the image must have some aspect ratio, even though the prompt didn't specify what it should be. You can certainly imagine a man walking into a drugstore in a non-visual way and not include such details (that's what I did, for example).

How many of you dream in concepts rather than images?

For the dreams I remember, it's probably ~1/2 visual, ~1/3 concepts and ~1/6 sound only.