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How do people with aphantasia play chess? (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Pretty much. I don't visualise it with pretty colors, but I can look at the board and see their lines of control. I feel like you're imagining aphantasia to be a lot more limiting than it actually is?

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  • [โ€“] [S] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Maybe so then. In my mind, "seeing" the line that's not there would count as visualizing.

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Well you might be seeing an actual line. I'm mentally tagging the squares in that line as 'line of control'. It's like seeing somebody point a finger at something. I don't need to visualise an actual line coming from their fingertip to be able to judge where they're pointing at. It's more a spatial thing than visualising an image.

    IDK, it's tough explaining how brains and thought processes work. They just... are.

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  • [โ€“] [S] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    This is why I'm always interested in talking to people about aphantasia. It's like 2 people trying our best to describe colors to each other and wondering "are we talking about the same thing...?" the whole time.

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