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aaw, touched a nerve have I because I'm suggesting you're not special? >Prove it. Precisely, unfalsifiable nonsense. >You can't keep track of your own argume

aaw, touched a nerve have I because I'm suggesting you're not special? >Prove it. Precisely, unfalsifiable nonsense. >You can't keep track of your own argument MY argument is this: people don't actually see things or even have imagery inside their head, which is normal, and self-proclaimed aphantasiacs are attention seekers who think they have a disability or special characteristic...there is no logical inconsistency in my argument.

estearum 19d ago
Not sure what could be motivating your reasoning here, but you've ignored several times the physiological evidence of differences in visual cognition between self-reported aphantasics and non-reporters that shows up in: fMRIs, skin conductivity tests, visual priming tests, and pupil dilation tests. Agreed no logical inconsistency, just very strange laziness and prickishness.
- jibal 18d ago
  He doesn't even know what an argument is ... he says "MY argument is this:" and then just makes an assertion, not an argument. Of course there's no logical inconsistency in his raw assertion -- there's no logic of any sort. But what I pointed out about his previous comment is that he asserted that no one "sees" objects in their minds -- implying that it is those who claim that they do who are lying -- and then he attacked aphantasics as attention seeking and angling at it being some sort of disability (a remarkably stupid mischaracterization, but then that's true of just about everything he said, like his remarkably hypocritical accusation that I had a nerve touched -- I simply chose to fisk the incoherent ranting of a troll). So his whole "argument" is inconsistent in its framing and presentation and who he is criticizing. It's hard to call it logically inconsistent because there's no logic ... his claims don't flow from reason or evidence, just sheer emo. His utter irrationality, cognitive ineptitude, and bad faith are epitomized by his response to my demand that he prove his claims with saying "Precisely, unfalsifiable nonsense." The guy has a lot of baseless and downright false opinions, like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49296897 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49296897 And he seems to live in a perpetual state of annoyance: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49296897 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49296897
  - jibal 18d ago
    Oops, the second link should have been https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49287006 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49287006

estearum 19d ago

Not sure what could be motivating your reasoning here, but you've ignored several times the physiological evidence of differences in visual cognition between self-reported aphantasics and non-reporters that shows up in: fMRIs, skin conductivity tests, visual priming tests, and pupil dilation tests. Agreed no logical inconsistency, just very strange laziness and prickishness.

jibal 18d ago
He doesn't even know what an argument is ... he says "MY argument is this:" and then just makes an assertion, not an argument. Of course there's no logical inconsistency in his raw assertion -- there's no logic of any sort. But what I pointed out about his previous comment is that he asserted that no one "sees" objects in their minds -- implying that it is those who claim that they do who are lying -- and then he attacked aphantasics as attention seeking and angling at it being some sort of disability (a remarkably stupid mischaracterization, but then that's true of just about everything he said, like his remarkably hypocritical accusation that I had a nerve touched -- I simply chose to fisk the incoherent ranting of a troll). So his whole "argument" is inconsistent in its framing and presentation and who he is criticizing. It's hard to call it logically inconsistent because there's no logic ... his claims don't flow from reason or evidence, just sheer emo. His utter irrationality, cognitive ineptitude, and bad faith are epitomized by his response to my demand that he prove his claims with saying "Precisely, unfalsifiable nonsense." The guy has a lot of baseless and downright false opinions, like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49296897 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49296897 And he seems to live in a perpetual state of annoyance: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49296897 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49296897
- jibal 18d ago
  Oops, the second link should have been https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49287006 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49287006