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brin-bellway:

sigmaleph:

Hm. I have olfactory imagination, but it’s definitely worse than my visual or auditory imagination. It’s about on par with my gustatory imagination. (I have varied skill in imagination for the various kinds of stimuli generally folded into “touch”, but in general they fall between visual/auditory and olfactory/gustatory. I don’t have a proprioceptive imagination. there are other things that are potentially considered sense that I do not feel like covering one by one)

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I bow my imaginary head in sympathy at your lack of proprioceptive imagination.

(I saw somebody in a Typepad comment thread once who was wondering what the quale of thinking in sign language was like, said it was completely alien to his experience. And I looked at that like “…I gesture in my thoughts all the time, the concept of signing your thoughts seems pretty intuitive to me”.)

((I think my ordering goes something like proprioception –> touch –> gustatory –> auditory –> visual –> olfactory.))

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