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perception

Submitted by heather on Tue, 02/19/2008 - 11:12pm.

synesthesia is such an intriguing phenomenon because it opens up the idea that others may perceive the world in an entirely different way than you, the individual. it reminds us (well, me at least) that, for example, what i perceive as "red" may not look at all the same to any other individual, and i would have no way of knowing otherwise. we all have the same name for what we are seeing, but have no quantitative or substantial way of comparing what we are actually seeing.

oh how i love that we cannot know.

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