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In this episode we discover how Bruce Silverstein's mind's eye works using the Discovering Your Mind Protocol. Bruce has aphantasia and describes what the words "imagine" and "imagination" mean to him and how it has evolved. He also talks about how most of his dreams are not visual, how he thought that portrayals of memories in movies was just artistic license, and how he gets bored by lengthy descriptions when reading fiction. I appreciate Bruce's insights on many interesting topics including whether or not aphantasia affects eye witness testimony.

Find out about some of Bruce's side projects below:

"I have multiple social media pages, including a page on Quora where I have written extensively on Causal Determinism, among other things (with more than 3 million user views). I also created and maintained a Facebook Group called "COVID-19 Memes" which has more than 7,000 members and thousands of posts by me and others. As I wrote in a relatively early post in that group: "In addition to hopefully providing entertainment to the many members of this group, a key purpose of this group is to create a historical record of the breadth and nature of the comedic response to the COVID-19 crisis." The group can be viewed at https://www.facebook.com/groups/171681997164078."

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