Re: Visualizing

"Don Y" <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> wrote in message news:vbfgpt$tlhp$1@dont-email.me...

On 9/6/2024 8:42 AM, Edward Rawde wrote:

If they can't visualise (or visualize if you prefer), then, if I may invent a few new words, can they hearalise? smellalise?
touchalise? tastealise?

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Of course!  How do you think a musician looks at a piece of sheet music
and figures out what it's *supposed* to sound like?

I've absolutely no idea how a musician does that but I know it can be done because I can look at the tune on this page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_Down,_O_Love_Divine
And hear it in my mind in full four part harmony with a choir of my choice.
I even translated it into the appropriate hand movements a few minutes ago and only made one mistake in the fiddly bit near the end.
I've no idea how I can do that either.

 Or, the pronunciation
for a word in a dictionary and know what it will sound like?

I recall someone once saying that the utterance of a single word causes activity to ripple across the cortex.
No surprise there since such an activity requires complex coordination of myriad muscles.

I've no idea how I know what a spoken word will sound like but I learned to produce them from an early age.

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How do you think a baker/chef/bartender assembles ingredients with an
expectation of what it will *taste* like?

From their experience of doing it previously.

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Don't you conjure an "image" when someone talks about "burning sulfur"?
Or, "vanilla"?

I can if I want.

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Can't you imagine what a piece of silk feels like?  Sandpaper?  Grease?

Sure I can. Was there a question here?