
53: The Case Against Reality | Don Hoffman (classic + updated)
The After On Podcast
The Interface Theory of Perception
Michael Watson's synesthesia helped him in his cooking, and he had an advantage over the rest of us. Carol Steen, as an artist, has a real advantage. Anything that she hears creates such a volume of beautiful visual images. We've ended up in some evolutionary setting in which only great cooks have lots of kids. The good lion dodgers are the people who have handed down our genes.
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