The Scale of a Fantasia

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Rofar: I was listening to this one interview by a chip designer in Silicon Valley. And he was talking about how his visual imagery, so this scale of a Fantasia,. There are people out there that have kind of the flip side of this, such that they're almost as vivid as reality. Rofar: If I cannot experience that, I do not know what it's like for my mental imagination ... It interferes with my ability to move around the world.

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