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❎CognitiveDissonance.exe has stopped working.
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Not all folks grow an inner-self, or the ability to abstract it from the world. Thus reflection is impossible.The article you‘ve linked there is about aphantasia. The incapability to visualise images does not hinder you from reflecting on your thoughts.
Having aphantasia from the inner self against the world disallows the ability to abstract from it. You couldn't reflect your actions against the world, and through it, with aphantasia. I’m not saying everyone with Cognitive Dissonance has aphantasia of the self, but that a subset cannot realize how their CogDis affects them and those around them. Self Reflection, and self realization, are highly complex abstractions CogDis folks generally do not partake.
I'm unable to visualize things in my mind, are you actually saying that it means I cannot self reflect? That's certainly a take... Also one that is not presented in the aphantasia article you linked, so I wonder where this jump in logic came from.
Feels like you just don't know what aphantasia is, even though you linked an article about it. And what's this "aphantasia from the inner self"?
I’m saying a subset cannot. You are not part of that subset, because you have formed an inner self, and you can abstract yourself from that subset, and other folks that cannot self-realize, therefore self-reflect.
E.g. If I ask you what: how would you feel if you had not had breakfast yesterday?
That’s my exact thesis. You have demonstrated you have an inner self. And that it is different from others. But there are also folks that do not conceptualize their inner self is different from others. And that that self affects others.
I think you’re conflating two very different cognitive processes. Aphantasia is very specifically the inability to visualise Images. Maybe, in a broader sense the inability to visualize (specific) senses in general. Lack of an inner-self and the resulting inability to self-reflect might be a thing but it sure is a very different phenomenon from aphantasia. Your inner self isn’t a physical sensation that you’re trying to visualise a memory of. And even anendophasia, the lack of an inner monologue, which is closer to what you’re describing than aphantasia, although still not quite it, does not seem influence self-reflection capabilities.