Joseph_Knecht comments on Words as Mental Paintbrush Handles - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Joseph_Knecht 04 March 2008 12:23:39AM 0 points [-]

I personally saw the man walking away from me on the left side of the street, and my persective was just to the left of the curb on that side of the street and slightly higher than the man, who was a short distance from me. I saw him turn left into a drugstore for a split second, and then when I realized the joke briefly saw him morph into a drugstore on the sidewalk.

To the people who say that they visualized the scene but, for example, didn't see the person walking towards or away from you, or didn't see the man on one side of the street or the other: how can you visualize a man walking down a street and not at the same time have him be on one side of the street or the other (or in it), and was he not either facing you or facing away from you in the image? If not, was it that the man was vague and so didn't have features like a face that would indicate direction? I'm still puzzled how he could not have a position relative to the street in an image that includes both a person and a street.