Gold would be given in troy ounces

Imagine one of the top 500 companies in an economy being a company where it’s sole job is to help people pay taxes.

Depends how you define temperature.

“There’s no such thing as cold”

Something at absolute zero would have zero heat.

If you define temperature as heat then it wouldn’t have heat or temperature.

Kind of similar to trying to measure nothing with a ruler. It says 0. There is no length, but is 0mm still a “measurement”?

I’ll never forget trying to read Redwall as a child and trying to remember what character was what animal. I had to write down a cheat sheet.

How do you read?

I have aphantasia and I have to subvocalize each word that I want to read.

Edit: Wait, subvocalize is different than inner speech is what I just read. I have to have my inner voice speak the word.

Memory or recall of facts. No.

Memory or recall of life experiences. Yes.

From my understanding people can play a “movie” of something like their last birthday party. See who was there, what they were wearing, etc.

Unless I make note of something I’m not going to remember it. I can “subconsciously” make a note of something and recall it but I cannot re

But other than a list of facts I have about my last birthday party, I cannot recall or experience it again.

As for reading. There’s no difference between me reading a biology textbook or a romance novel. I read, soak up knowledge, critically think, and remember.

I have to subvocalize to read. I’m curious on why you assumed we had to read outloud. I don’t know how other aphants read.

Edit: Wait, subvocalize is different than inner speech is what I just read. I have to have my inner voice speak the word.

Apparently dreams aren’t necessarily affected by aphantasia.

I feel like when I do have dreams they are extremely vivid and real because I am seeing my thoughts which isn’t normal.

Yeah took me 36 years.

It takes actually knowing that people actually see images to know that you cannot do that.

Counting sheep never made true sense to me. How is keeping a tally of “imaginary” sheep jumping over an “imaginary” fence supposed to help me fall asleep?

Makes sense when you realize people do it to stop their brains from randomly sending themselves other imaginary that’s going to keep them up. It’s like choosing to turn on the TV to something you could fall asleep to is my understanding.

Tonal languages are probably harder to make sense.

When you say “Ma” in Mandarin you could mean 4 different things.

So if I was trying to say “I like my horse” or “I like my mother” you’d say “I like my ma”. Unless you had context you wouldn’t know what I was trying to say if I didn’t use the correct tone.

English tones give extra information.

“I LIKE my horse” or “I like MY horse”.

One you could like your horse, other you might really LIKE your horse.

“I go store” vs “I am going to go to the store now”. The meaning isn’t really lost.

English is hard because speaking it well is complex. There are dozens of way to say “walked”

Did the man stroll down the street? Strut, marched, trudged, shuffled, stumbled, hobbled, or etc.

Someone that doesn’t know English well would understand that the man hobbling down the street means that the man went down the street. But hobbling has the idea that the man is injured. If they were trying to describe the man limping down the road they would be thrown off thinking about how they could describe it as hobbled. “The man walked with a limp down the street” or “The man limped as he walked down the street”

Then there’s things like “The man hobbled down Bourbon Street” now you get the idea that he is hobbling because of being intoxicated rather than injured.

But getting the general idea is pretty simple. “Man go road”

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The lord of the rings trilogy could be a single long movie. I feel like it fits but really isn’t in the spirt of the question.

I feel like it needs to be “First movie was so good, so they made a sequel”

You know how nice it is to hit one button on your phone at night and for all needed lights to go off?

So nice to have them on a timer so when you get home your house isn’t dark.

I think smart switches are really nice but for lamps not on a switch. Smart bulbs work great

For me. Reading something myself vs. Having someone read to me are completely different.

I enjoy audio books way more than reading myself because it doesn’t pull as much of my focus.

When I read, I have to read, understand, process.

When I hear it, it’s just understand and process.

It would be the equivalent of having to read subtitles for an in person conversation rather than hearing their voice.

I can listen and process. I cannot process as well while reading because I’m focused on processing words

From what I understand is that people can read without subvocalizing because their brain can just simply pick up the meaning of groups of words together.

I cannot read without subvocalizing. Like I can skim and read only words that stand out to me and I’d get the gist of it. But to full comprehend everything I’d basically have to subvocalize every word.

To me there’s no difference between reading a chemistry text book or a romance novel. Just words I have to read to comprehend.

I’m sure I’d enjoy reading some things more than others. Like a story with a compelling plot and not a lot of visual word fluff.

But reading pages and pages of words just so I can know what happens next in the story when a simple sentence would suffice doesn’t sound enjoyable to me.

Kind of like how instead of reading the book you could read the cliff notes. At best I’m only going to remember the cliff note facts after reading the book. “How the author tells the story” is lost on me because I’d rather them just get to the point. All the word fluff of setting up a scene are just facts that I’m not going to commit to memory.

As someone with aphantasia I never got why people enjoyed reading

You have things like grapheme-color synesthesia where people really do experience things different. They might see 2s as blue and 5s as green. So if they ever saw a 2 it would be blue. Like 5 5 5 5 2 5 5. Even though the numbers are all the same color to us someone with the synesthesia would see those numbers there in the color their mind associates them with automatically.

Here’s the standard color wheel set to Red, Blue, Yellow as primary colors.

You’ll notice that magenta is represented as almost a whole different color. It’s light red in the CMYK, light purple in RGB.

And

Cyan, baby blue, sky blue, etc. isn’t represented. Instead you get a blue-purple they call violet.

Light Red - Magenta

Light Blue - Cyan

Blue-Purple - Indigo

Light Purple - Red-Purple - Fushsia

We as a whole can’t decide what constitutes purple/violet in RGB model

Even if someone doesn’t know what a true “Indigo” looks like they are still experiencing that color for what it is. They will just call it Bluish-Purple or Purplish-Blue. And unless it really was the exact mix of 50/50 blue and purple it wouldn’t be indigo. It would be a equivalent to a Redish-Orange. A Bluish-Indigo or Purplish-Indigo.

Sorry for the walls of text I was learning and thought I might as well share.

Your language doesn’t change your perception of color.

The primary colors being Red, Yellow, Blue. Is made up. There’s no reason those should be the three primary colors.

Magenta, Yellow, and Cyan could be the primary colors if you were taught that.

In that color wheel orange is an intermediate color. The intermediate color between green and yellow can be called chartreuse.

Did you know chartreuse as a color or did you just know it as yellow-green?

Do you not preceve the color chartreuse the same as someone that just knows that name?

You can perceve all the difference colors on this wheel without needing an official word.

As you can see “Brown” is just a darker orange.

Your phone screen only uses three colors to represent all colors.

If you printed out the photo of the dress the “illusion” wouldn’t work.

The 3 colors used to make the blue dress in warm “gold” light is what allows your brain to interpret it as yellow.

If anything it helps prove that people basically see in the same way. Just if your brain adjusts for the backlight tone. You either saw blue or yellow. No one was saying purple or orange.

If you took mushrooms and saw purple you’d be hallucinating. Your brain is giving you false information.

Seeing it as yellow isn’t false information but a different interpretation of the given material