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53: The Case Against Reality | Don Hoffman (classic + updated)

The After On Podcast

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The Neuroscientific View of Synesthesia

In the normal case, what we construct is a fairly accurate and faithful reconstruction of real objects. The traditional view is that that third of the brain, which is visual, is a reality engine. One thing that might support this is this phenomenon called synesthesia. About 4% of humans are synesthetes where they have a melding of the senses.

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