Fei-Fei Li: Spatial intelligence is the next frontier in AI [video]

I've always wondered how spatial reasoning appears to be operating quite differently from other cognitive abilities, with significant individual variations. Some people effortlessly parallel park while others struggle with these tasks despite excelling at other forms of pattern recognition. What was particularly intriguing for me is that some people with aphantasia have no difficulty with spatial reasoning tasks, so spatial reasoning may be distinct from reasoning based on internal visualization.

my theory is that aphantasia is purely about conscious access to visualizing not the existence of the ability to visualise.

I have aphantasia but I would say that spatial reasoning is one of the things my brain is the best at

How does one determine they have aphantasia? How do you know that you are not doing exactly this thing people call visualizing when you perform spatial reasoning?