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Kate Fremont
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 Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2005 7:59 pm Post subject: Re: Synesthesia - The taste of COLOR.
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| Do you suppose synesthesia is more common in artists than in the general population? I think it would enhance the visual arts, music composition, and writing. |
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| Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 9:32 am Post subject: Re: Synesthesia - The taste of COLOR.
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It's probably downright annoying to smell music...
With as much bad pop music as there is going around these days, I'd imagine it's a little like stepping in dog crap everytime you walk out the front door of your house.
On a serious note, I wonder how this sort of thing would effect a program to write a doctine of knowledge taking into account the nature of human sensation and cognition, like that of Kant and Jacob Bronowski. |
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| Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 9:35 am Post subject: Re: Synesthesia - The taste of COLOR.
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I imagine that this "phenomenon" in the right person would give us a totally different take on any philosophical work...but would us mundanes be able to comprehend it?
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| Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 6:49 pm Post subject: Re: Synesthesia - The taste of COLOR.
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OK, X-Men, I've got it! The word I wanted to use is manifestation or trait. The people who have this trait, ...or ...the people in whom this manifests itself...
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| Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 9:22 am Post subject: Re: Synesthesia - The taste of COLOR.
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Trait works well!
Mr. P. The one thing of which I am positive is that there is much of which to be negative - Mr. P.
The pain in hell has two sides. The kind you can touch with your hand; the kind you can feel in your heart...Scorsese's "Mean Streets"
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| Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 9:22 pm Post subject: Re: Synesthesia - The taste of COLOR.
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In the paper that Cytowik wrote, (I posted the link above), he has a secton on his belief that it is emotion that rules, not logic or reason, that the higher brain is not the top gun. He has a wonderful quote:
"Reason is the endless paperwork of the mind."
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| Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 1:18 pm Post subject: Re: Synesthesia - The taste of COLOR.
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"emotion rules"
Possibly...but I do try to temper that with a strong will to reason. I do not always succeed...
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