David Eagleman: Adding to the senses
The Future of Everything
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What Is Synesthesia and What's Cool About It?
David Eagleman: synesthesia is where sensory stimulation in a particular sense triggers some other unusual sensory perception. He says people will look at, let's say, a letter of the alphabet or a number and have a color experience. So it's a blending of the senses, a mixture of the senses he says. Altman: How do we know they're not just on drugs or they're lying? Or well-meaning, but not a good vocabulary?"
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