What if a key feature of your mind—like your inability to visualize—wasn’t a random glitch, but a signature? Not a bug, but an autograph?
For decades, aphantasia—the inability to generate voluntary mental imagery—has been framed in two ways. It’s seen as a congenital trait, a neurological variation you’re simply born with. Or it’s acquired, lost after a brain injury or trauma. Both views see it as a state of the hardware: either it was born that way, or it was damaged.
For decades, aphantasia—the inability to generate voluntary mental imagery—has been framed in two ways. It’s seen as a congenital trait, a neurological variation you’re simply born with. Or it’s acquired, lost after a brain injury or trauma. Both views see it as a state of the hardware: either it was born that way, or it was damaged.
What if a key feature of your mind—like your inability to visualize—wasn’t a random glitch, but a signature? Not a bug, but an autograph?
For decades, aphantasia—the inability to generate voluntary mental imagery—has been framed in two ways. It’s seen as a congenital trait, a neurological variation you’re simply born with. Or it’s acquired, lost after a brain injury or trauma. Both views see it as a state of the hardware: either it was born that way, or it was damaged.