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Originally Posted by crich70
Well I will grant that I can't pop in and read your thoughts as you read. I'm just working off of my own experience. I mean if someone says to me "hand me the red book on the top shelf" I know what the words 'red' 'book' top shelf' mean. I have experience with the world so that I know that red is a particular color, and I know what both a book and a shelf is so that I don't hand them a can of soda from the fridge. I don't have to consciously think about it, I just hand them the red book from the top shelf. Likewise with descriptions in a book. I know what the thing described looks like or (in the case of things that don't exist in the real world) what similar things look like. So I visualize it in my head as I read.
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I can see but not visualize so that's certainly not how it works with me. Without looking my impression of a paper book is the feel of fingers around binding and paper, a shelf is a location in space and I can't bring to mind what red is but I know it when I see it.
Life is weird, people are weird, there's a limit to how much you can say about another's experience based on your own.