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So how do you think about abstract concepts, like morality, which have no visual structure?



By analogy? They don't necessary have verbal structure either.

Use of spatial analogies for abstract concepts is common: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceptual_metaphor


I'm convinced that different people have very different experiences thinking about the world.


Morality is actually purely visual to me. It's daydreams about scenarios, their outcomes, even the expression on people's faces. Just about everything is visual to me.




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