Because he uses computers, it's different from making it up in your mind. Here's a fact about him from the internet: "When Catmull was young, he wanted to become an animator for Disney. But in high school, he realized he wasn't good at drawing, so he began to focus on computers."
Aphantesia is a whole universe of mine too. Ed Catmull maybe Steve Jobs couldn't imagine an Apple. I meditate too for 25 years now and only feel relax. Not able to visualize my parents who passed away.But I am good at "Drawing with the right side of the brain" as Betty Edwards titled her Book 3 million copies worldwide.
Thanks a lot for this interview. Very interresting and instructive. Very interrested in the possible links with poor auto biographical memory. Thanks again.
I use mnemonics, for example I was trying to remember a sequence that started 253.. and I thought two Fifth Third Banks… I have full aphantasia and use tricks like these to remember all kinds of things.
It’s cool for aphantasic people to see Ed Catmul be so successful. Makes you not think of Aphantasia as a disability. He’s also so intelligent.
Because he uses computers, it's different from making it up in your mind. Here's a fact about him from the internet:
"When Catmull was young, he wanted to become an animator for Disney. But in high school, he realized he wasn't good at drawing, so he began to focus on computers."
Aphantesia is a whole universe of mine too. Ed Catmull maybe Steve Jobs couldn't imagine an Apple. I meditate too for 25 years now and only feel relax. Not able to visualize my parents who passed away.But I am good at "Drawing with the right side of the brain" as Betty Edwards titled her Book 3 million copies worldwide.
Thanks a lot for this interview. Very interresting and instructive. Very interrested in the possible links with poor auto biographical memory. Thanks again.
uno mas!
I am aphantasic and simply cannot remember strings of numbers, phone numbers. How do aphantasics approach this dilemma?
Write it down
I use mnemonics, for example I was trying to remember a sequence that started 253.. and I thought two Fifth Third Banks… I have full aphantasia and use tricks like these to remember all kinds of things.
I am too and I remember phone numbers from my childhood and the serial numbers from my pirated windows xp
Left handed slightly better than right seems like an important finding
16:15 also the female better than male one
6, 7, 9
20:30 aphantasics have an ability to let stuff go
22:00 adaptability
Idea for how to help people visualise with Aphantasia would be to use mushrooms Because it ware off after 8hrs and the image would fade