college in general is filled with people asking the stupidest questions in the world (”how do we know the romans didn’t build the great pyramids?”) but my FAVORITE is when we learned about prehistoric art and one girl looked at the cave paintings of the horses and asked “but how did they know what the horses looked like?” and the professor was dumbfounded for a second before replying “well….they….saw them.” and the girl went “yeah but how did they know what the horses looked like in the cave? did they bring them in?”

like this girl either didn’t know that humans possess the capability to remember things or could not conceive of drawing without the object right in front of you to reference. she was so baffled but so willing to learn.

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  4. rocker-socks said: Aphantasia I believe it’s called
  5. rocker-socks said: Yoo there’s actually a thing where some people Can’t remember pictures. When we think of apples we well, think of apples and could draw then from memory. When they do they have to use their knowledge of an apple, knowing it’s red or green and round, and go from there. Perhaps she had that?
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