Eric Schwitzgebel
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first heard Jun 2011
last heard Jun 2011
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works mostly in translation and then looking at the original language for key passages so I'd go and I'd look and I'd say oh there's an analogy that this person is making between imagery and pictures because so and so is saying picture such and such and then I look at the original and it's not the word picture in there it's almost invisible to us that it's an analogy to call an image a picture
But in fact, I... And so I... But I don't have... I'm not sure exactly why people reach such different judgments about their imagery experience.
I think partly some of us may analogize more to pictures than do others, right?
And pictures tend to have a lot of detail, right?
You can obviously have sketchy pictures, but the canonical kind of picture is fairly detailed.
So people...
Who analogize more strongly may be more likely to ascribe detail to their imagery.
But I also think people are invested in wanting to see themselves as good imagers or as poor imagers.
So there's some recent work that suggests that people of certain personality or certain attitudes toward an experiment will tend to describe themselves as very good at imagery.
Other people won't.
In Galton's time, actually, there was an opinion that seemed to be current that real scientists were good, serious scientists were good at abstract thinking that didn't involve imagery and kind of being swept up in detailed concrete imagery was a sign of kind of too concrete a mind, too sensory a mind, right?
And so some scientists may have been motivated to underdescribe their imagery for that reason.
So I'm not sure.
I don't have a really... I haven't found a nice empirical test to try to figure out where these differences in report are coming from.
That's something that I'd like to think about more.
But it does seem like differences in report don't seem to relate to differences in cognitive performance, which leads me...
Which doesn't compel, but certainly fits with my general skepticism about the accuracy of people's reports.
And there are other possible interpretations, too.
Like imagery is, in fact, cognitively useless or something.
Yeah.
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