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Window Into the Mind
As we increase our knowledge of the genetic, neural and cognitive aspects of synaesthesia, we will find that we are beginning to understand the brain more completely. Researchers may wish that they possessed synaesthesia, but being able to explore a new and strange trait that may hold the answers to many fundamental questions is reward…
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Music of Hemispheres
Hearing Colors, Tasting Shapes By Vilayanur S. Ramachandran and Edward M. Hubbard Modern scientists have known about synesthesia since 1880, when Francis Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin, published a paper in Nature on the phenomenon. But most have brushed it aside as fakery, an artifact of drug use (LSD and mescaline can produce similar…
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Understanding the Tonal
Sir Isaac Newton So, you have your units, and the powers of ten? Distances shorter than 1 µm 1 micrometre (micron)Items with lengths between 1-10 µm (microns)1.55 µm — wavelength of light used in optical fibre6 µm — anthrax spore6-8 µm — diameter of a human red blood cell7 µm — diameter of the nucleus…
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Remembrance
You must understand that the areas with which I had been dealing are highly rigourous. Imagine the purity with which these subjects deal. Now pale in comparison are the controls and experimental validation processes, I see in psychological information and experimentaion. Relying on subject associative mapping relevances in the brain, would this lead to a…
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Modulating Phases States:Neural Correlates to Consciousness
J. Metzinger Le Gouter/Teatime 1911Dynamical triangulation I added the wording below picture to encourage you to click on the picture. While discretization may have been thought endorsed, I still believe in continuity and flow, yet, I could not help think about how the mind is wanting to speak about that confined space, and the simplest…
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More on Wassily Kandinsky
Synesthesia (Greek, syn = together + aisthesis = perception) is the involuntary physical experience of a cross-modal association. That is, the stimulation of one sensory modality reliably causes a perception in one or more different senses. I have some ideas around this, that if thought about, would have created differences in “phase states of mind”…
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"Wholeness and Creativity" under the Guise of Synesthesia
It is not without some understanding, that models can influence how the rest of the mind might seek to unify such concepts. Is there some spiritual sigificance to it? In Wassily Kandinsky’s mind there might be, yet some woud argue, that Wassily was and had this process taking form in the mind but did not…
