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Not watching the video, but obviously not.
There is a huge amount of human variation, but one of the big ones is some people don't have an internal monologue and some people lack the ability to visualize things in their mind.
Either one of those drastically changes what we think of as a consciousness.
Hell, some of the split brain subjects are probably still alive. Some of them had two distinct consciousnesses emerge due to their hemispheres no longer being able to communicate. That's definitely unique now that we're not cauterizing corpus callosums anymore.
I think my lack of internal monologue and inability to visualize is why I've never been able to get into reading. I'm a little jealous when I hear people describe books as "like watching a movie in your mind".
I can not visualize pictures in my mind at all, but I was always into reading. Instead of pictures I can build abstract concepts and make connections between that I can touch and move
This is exactly how I do it. I’ve never been able to articulate it like that. Yeah things are connected and I can sort of feel along those connections to understand them.
So I understand how different parts of the story connect with each other while ignoring visual details like descriptions of how things look.
Nice to know there are dozens of us!