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   JAB  wrote:   
   > Many people have no mental imagery. What's going on in their brains?   
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   > People with aphantasia are offering a window into consciousness.   
   > ...   
   > ...   
   > Although scientists have known for more than a century that mental   
   > imagery varies between people, the topic received a surge of attention   
   > when, a decade ago, an influential paper coined the term aphantasia to   
   > describe the experience of people with no mental imagery   
   > ...   
   > Since then, aphantasia has shot into the canon of unusual phenomena   
   > that are invaluable for studying how the mind works. Like synaesthesia   
   > (in which people's senses are connected in exceptional ways, so they   
   > hear colours, for example) and prosopagnosia (also known as face   
   > blindness), aphantasia has opened many new research avenues.   
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   > https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00311-7   
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   Music, mostly. I don’t have much inner dialogue or anything but I hear   
   music nearly constantly and fairly vividly.   
      
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