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David Eagleman: Adding to the senses

The Future of Everything

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Is Synesthesia the Future of Everything?

David Eagleman: Every synesthet has a unique pattern of colored letters. He says one group had, by about 1973, it was 15% of the letters. That's 15% of synesthetes that we've tested have the same pattern. There appears to be a genetic component there, he says. And so not hard to believe that there would be brains that would be wired like that; this is the future of everything.

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