Is It Possible to Remember Numbers?

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You would think it would just affect how you conceptualize things, how you talk about things in a way that... I guess it doesn't seem to because we have other ways of adapting. Most of these people are lifelong this way, so they don't know any different. And so I imagine that it's like people with synesthesia who can, for instance, see sounds ... They might wonder what it's like to be us and be like, well, how do you remember numbers if you can't visualize them?

Tamler’s earlier self committed to doing an episode on Parfit, and David holds his current self to that promise, which shows how unconvinced David was by Parfit’s skepticism about personal identity. Or something like that. We argue about the value of Parfit’s sci-fi thought experiments and the implications of believing there’s no clear sense of “me.” Plus, we talk about a recent article on aphantasia – the inability to conjure images in your mind – and the question that pops into everyone’s head when they hear about this condition.