I've never seen any image of any kind in my mind, nor have I experienced any other imagined sense. Visual thinking is merely activity within a region of the brain associated with a visual experience. If you were to shoot a charged particle through your occipital lobe, you may experience it as a flash of light. Those with aphantasia process thought in a different region of the brain that is not associated with the experience of visualization.
Where that thought takes place will determine the structure and connections within the neural network that processes that information. Most complex neural networks can solve any basic problem, but some structures are more efficient, more accurate, or... (read more)
I've never seen any image of any kind in my mind, nor have I experienced any other imagined sense. Visual thinking is merely activity within a region of the brain associated with a visual experience. If you were to shoot a charged particle through your occipital lobe, you may experience it as a flash of light. Those with aphantasia process thought in a different region of the brain that is not associated with the experience of visualization.
Where that thought takes place will determine the structure and connections within the neural network that processes that information. Most complex neural networks can solve any basic problem, but some structures are more efficient, more accurate, or... (read more)