Beyond Deficits: Unlocking the Uniqueness of Our Mental Perception Imagination in English, comes from the Latin imaginatio , which translates the Greek term phantasia . Defined in the 14th century. Before this, we had mystics who understood mind far better than modern science does, listing seven mental senses (clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience, claircognizance, clairtangency, clairgustance and clairaliance) and the daimon. Phantasia in Greek, derived from phainesthai (meaning "to appear" or "to become visible"), refers to mental imagery formed without sensory input. Originally, Aphantasia referred specifically to the absence of mental visual imagery. All the terms mentioned above pertain to types of imagery, focusing solely on one sense: vision. None of these terms encompass mental senses that are not image or vision-based. The full scope of mental sense perception is not detailed in these definitions, what they do is define the subheading that encomp
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