For example let’s say I’m daydreaming about a car, I can now see a detailed ‘video’ of the car driving and doing whatever I want it to. Obviously I’m not seeing this with my eyes, so where am I seeing it?
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Imagine your visionary brain works kind of like a Lite Brite (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49wHAYlCHaI if you don’t know what that is).
When you are physically viewing things your brain is trying to match the input image with a wide array of pre-built Lite Bright “templates” you have stored in memory. It would be like if you passed a physical, light-emitting screen which shows a real photo behind the surface of the Lite Bright, in front of various pre-made templates that you own to see which ones lit up 100%, or at least which one lit up the best. I’m ignoring the fact that this is probably broken down into much smaller fragments than a whole image, and these fragments all have various associations with each other that are organized in a way that you can reuse and group certain pieces together and name them things, like “the group of pieces that make a cat” or “fast moving object flying at my face”. Anyway..
When you’re imagining it this in in reverse, it’s like taking the pre-existing fragment groups (Lite Bright templates) you know from memory and then lighting them yourself from behind to see what they are.
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