Dr. David Eagleman

You get rid of the friction to go do things like that.

But all of those moves...

are for your future self.

When you put your shoes near the door before you go to sleep that night, you are doing something because you know your future self is going to be a little bit lazy and tired.

Yeah, you know, I would say one of the most fascinating things we've discovered in neuroscience, for my money, is just this issue that along anything we measure, there's a spectrum.

So just take something like the internal voice.

For my wife, for example, she describes it as her inner radio.

She's always hearing her inner voice.

I don't really have one.

I just never hear that.

So we're on opposite ends of the spectrum that way.

But, you know, one of the things I've studied is aphantasia all the way to hyperphantasia.

An ant crawling on a tablecloth towards a jar of purple jelly.

Some people see it like a movie in their head that's called hyperphantasia.

Some people have no picture at all in their head that's called aphantasia.

Picture a sun coming over the mountain and the rays of the sun poking through the clouds and then it starts raining and rains coming down.

So the question is, do you see it as clearly as a movie or do you have really no visual anything in your head or are you somewhere in between?

Typically this is judged on a scale from one to five where five is a movie, one is no visual at all, and three is in between.

Essentially, yes.

They're seeing it like vision.