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Same thing, but with knowledge instead of colors. Like how you can (I assume) know your birthday without visualizing a calendar.
Wow. That's wild. I suspect a lot of folks here without aphantasia are wondering what it even means to "know" something without being able to see (or hear/smell/taste/feel/whatever) it in your head.
I guess I "know my birthday" by virtue of the fact that I hear the words "August 17th" (not my real birthday, but yeah) in my head when I casually wonder what my birthday is.
If I know my birthday is on a Wednesday this year, I can picture a calendar page with the middle square of the third row "highlighted" like The Picard Maneuver was talking about with controlled squares above.
For me, I'm not sure I can imagine "knowing" something without either hearing or seeing (or otherwise sensing via some anlogue of the 5 senses) it in some sense in my head.
If I ask you your birthday, Iโd expect you to hear โAugust 17thโ in your inner voice before answering. But if I asked you โis your birthday January 3?โ would you have to mentally say your birthday before answering โnoโ? Iโd assume not.
My inner voice is used almost exclusively for forming sentences before speaking or typing them. If Iโm alone, not thinking of conversations, and not reading, thereโs rarely anything there except maybe a song stuck in my head. My inner voice isnโt constantly there saying โletโs go switch over the laundryโ and stuff.
Folks with aphantasia are also more likely to lack an inner voice.
I wouldn't say my birthday in my head before responding. My inner voice isn't so different from yours, except being in a conversation mine is silent. With typing as well mine isn't always present. Typing on my phone I have to think the word to swipe it, but on a keyboard I sometimes just type.