Sorry, meant to reply sooner but it’s been a crazy week and it slipped my mind
Sound, especially music, is a bit more vivid for me, but it’s still very much happening in its own little sandbox separate from the real world that I’m actually hearing with my ears. I’m not going to confuse the music in my head with actual music coming from a radio or something, and it wouldn’t drown out other sounds I’m hearing but it might distract me from them.
My computer analogy is a little clunky and not quite perfect, but it’s the best I’ve come up with. Whatever I’m imagining in my head is happening in sort of a separate space from my normal hearing and vision, but it has all of the bells and whistles of the things I’m actually seeing (and maybe more in some respects) and is getting processed by more or less the same parts of my brain as the real deal.
Instead of muting the sound and minimizing the windows, I could also describe it as they’re going to a separate monitor and set of speakers, neither quite fully describes the experience for me, like I said, the analogy isn’t perfect.
Regardless of if I think of it as being muted or going to a separate speaker or headset or monitor or whatever, the core is that my brain is the computer, and it’s processing both audio and/or video streams, crunching all of the numbers and doing all of the same kind of encoding, decoding, rendering, etc. for both of them whether or not the volume is turned up or which device they’re outputting to, both media players are running at the same time with different things playing. It just happens that one is a live stream from the world outside my skull, and the other is something that’s being created and rendered on the fly by the OG neural network.
Sorry, meant to reply sooner but it’s been a crazy week and it slipped my mind
Sound, especially music, is a bit more vivid for me, but it’s still very much happening in its own little sandbox separate from the real world that I’m actually hearing with my ears. I’m not going to confuse the music in my head with actual music coming from a radio or something, and it wouldn’t drown out other sounds I’m hearing but it might distract me from them.
My computer analogy is a little clunky and not quite perfect, but it’s the best I’ve come up with. Whatever I’m imagining in my head is happening in sort of a separate space from my normal hearing and vision, but it has all of the bells and whistles of the things I’m actually seeing (and maybe more in some respects) and is getting processed by more or less the same parts of my brain as the real deal.
Instead of muting the sound and minimizing the windows, I could also describe it as they’re going to a separate monitor and set of speakers, neither quite fully describes the experience for me, like I said, the analogy isn’t perfect.
Regardless of if I think of it as being muted or going to a separate speaker or headset or monitor or whatever, the core is that my brain is the computer, and it’s processing both audio and/or video streams, crunching all of the numbers and doing all of the same kind of encoding, decoding, rendering, etc. for both of them whether or not the volume is turned up or which device they’re outputting to, both media players are running at the same time with different things playing. It just happens that one is a live stream from the world outside my skull, and the other is something that’s being created and rendered on the fly by the OG neural network.