Yeah, the friends and family Blake Ross reached out to would’ve probably shared your incredulity, like that last friend who ended with how always-on visualisation is “what makes us human, right?”
I’ve only met one full-blown aphantasiac in my life, a pure math postdoc at I think UC Berkeley. He could not visualise a rotating cube to save his life, and flunked the shape rotator sections of the IQ test he was administered as a child. But algebra was “ridiculously easy” to him, so that’s what he ended up specialising in.
Yeah, the friends and family Blake Ross reached out to would’ve probably shared your incredulity, like that last friend who ended with how always-on visualisation is “what makes us human, right?”
I’ve only met one full-blown aphantasiac in my life, a pure math postdoc at I think UC Berkeley. He could not visualise a rotating cube to save his life, and flunked the shape rotator sections of the IQ test he was administered as a child. But algebra was “ridiculously easy” to him, so that’s what he ended up specialising in.