TheBigBrother@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 3 months agoDo you think animals have thoughts? Are they capable of hearing that little voice that we humans have in our heads?message-squaremessage-square124fedilinkarrow-up1101arrow-down113file-text
arrow-up188arrow-down1message-squareDo you think animals have thoughts? Are they capable of hearing that little voice that we humans have in our heads?TheBigBrother@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 3 months agomessage-square124fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaresartalon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 months agoWhat do you mean by seeing? Like they don’t see images in their mind?
minus-squaresartalon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoI definitely see images, but not specifics. For example, I can see my wife’s face, in my mind, but I can’t draw from that memory. Like I am seeing the images from a distance, but if I try to focus on a detail, the image falls apart.
minus-squareilli@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoThis is so fascinating! It’s easy to assume most people experience things the same way while we are all different all the way down to how we think and imagine stuff!
What do you mean by seeing? Like they don’t see images in their mind?
We don’t.
I definitely see images, but not specifics. For example, I can see my wife’s face, in my mind, but I can’t draw from that memory.
Like I am seeing the images from a distance, but if I try to focus on a detail, the image falls apart.
Some people do. Many of us don’t.
This is so fascinating! It’s easy to assume most people experience things the same way while we are all different all the way down to how we think and imagine stuff!