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		Semaphor 12 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: People who can't picture anything are rewriting th... I sometimes called it "textual memory of an image", but I also liked TFA with "we experience these as an awareness of a set of spatial facts"
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karmakaze 12 days ago [–]

Yes. Reminds me of "Poetry is the art of giving different names to the same thing" vs "Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things" -- Henri Poincaré. Set of spacial facts is what's left when all the incidental embellishments are removed--pure abstraction.

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