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IdealeZahlen ◴[] No.44452291[source]
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.
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1. fennecfoxy ◴[] No.44466086[source]
I mean just walking down the street or through a supermarket, it seems to me like 95% of people have no spatial awareness at all. Walking forward while looking to the side or backward.

Either that or they're perfectly capable, they just don't care.