Synaesthesia
Correspondences
Nature is a temple where living pillars
Let escape sometimes confused words;
Man traverses it through forests of symbols
That observe him with familiar glances.
Like long echoes that intermingle from afar
In a dark and profound unity,
Vast like the night and like the light,
The perfumes, the colours and the sounds respond.
There are perfumes fresh like the skin of infants
Sweet like oboes, green like prairies,
-And others corrupted, rich and triumphant
That have the expanse of infinite things,
Like ambergris, musk, balsam and incense,
Which sing the ecstasies of the mind and senses.
By
Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)
Synaesthesia
What is Synaesthesia
A subjective sensation of one sense being stimulated by another,
synaesthesia is a non-debilitating perceptual disorder, which means
literally joined sensation. Derived from the Greek words "syn" meaning
join and "aesthesis" meaning perception or to perceive, it is a word
used to describe the involuntary physical experience of cross modal
association. In other words, the stimulation of one sensory modality
reliably causing a perception in one or more different senses. For
example, a synaesthete may see coloured shapes projected into their
field of vision as a result of auditory stimulation.
Types of Synaesthesia
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There are many different types of syaesthesia. In fact, the crossing
over of two or more of the senses means there can be 31 possibilities
of different combinations of the senses. Though it is usually only 2
of the senses that merge bringing it down to just 20 different pairings, (www.macalester.edu/~psych/whathap/UBNRP/synaesthesia/types.html).
It is divided into 2 c...
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...u,
"Don't look at me in that tone of voice because you're smelling a
funny colour,"
Think about what is really meant!!
Bibliography
Information in putting together this presentation has been taken from
various sources, including websites, books and previous television
broadcasts.
Other websites used were:
http://www.wam.umd.edu/~mjhickey/stieglitz/synaesthesia.htm
http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/v2/psyche-2-10-cytowic.html
http://www.psychol.ucl.ac.uk/jamie.ward/qanda.htm
http://www.vislab.usyd.edu.au/user/alyons/synaesthesia.html
http://www.doctorhugo.org/synaesthesia/
http://www.wam.umd.edu/~mjhickey/stieglitz/synaesthesia.htm
Book used:
A Natural History Of The Senses, written by Dianne Ackerman,
published by Phoenix1996.
Television Broadcast used:
Horizon, "OrangeSherbet Kisses" - Synaesthesia, A Perceptual Disorder.
In this paper, I will argue that it is more likely that the qualia of colour could be explained by physicalism rather than by property dualism. Qualia are subjective experiences, such as our senses (pg. 3). Physicalism views every property as physical, and can be explained by science (pg. 29). Property dualism refers to the philosophical view that minds are made out of one substance, but contain physical properties, and a non-physical mind (qualia) that are not related to each other (pg. 29).
The philosophical theory of dualism holds that mind and body are two separate entities. While dualism presupposes that the two ‘substances’ may interact, it contrasts physicalism by refusing to denote correlation between body and mind as proof of identity. Comparing the two theories, dualism’s invulnerable proof of the existence of qualia manages to evade arguments from physicalism. While a common argument against qualia—non-physical properties defined in Jackson’s Knowledge Argument—targets the unsound nature of epiphenomenalism, this claim is not fatal to the theory of dualism as it contains claims of causation and fails to stand resolute to the conceivability of philosophical zombies. This essay argues that epiphenomenalism, while often designated as a weakness when present in an argument, can remain in valid arguments from qualia.
... sight: A case of hemineglect. In J. A. Ogden, Fractured Minds (pp. 113-136). New York: Oxford University Press.
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In a study done by V. S. Ramachandran and Zeve Marcus, seven synaesthetes and thirteen non-synaesthetes were tested on their personal effects of the McCollough effect (2017). Collectively, this study showed that the observations made could prove the possibility that the McCollough effect can take advantage of the color connections that synesthetes already possess to strengthen the effects.
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