Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 08:59:48 +0200
From: "Gatherer, D. (Derek)" <D.Gatherer@organon.nhe.akzonobel.nl>
Subject: RE: Differentiation/Merging of the senses
To: "'memetics@mmu.ac.uk'" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
>Derek:
>I am sceptical concerning synaesthesia.
Chris:
OK.. how much reading have you done on it?
Derek:
A fair amount, although I don't claim to be an expert. I've never read
anything that convinced me that it is anything other than a hallucination,
rather like an LSD-induced state. I don't buy
a) that it is a "normal" state in infants
b) that it is somehow deeply meaningful with respect to the theory of the
brain
As I said before, people claim to see all sorts of strange things. Why
synaethesia should be elevated to some kind of special case has always
puzzled me.
===============================================================
This was distributed via the memetics list associated with the
Journal of Memetics - Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission
For information about the journal and the list (e.g. unsubscribing)
see: http://www.cpm.mmu.ac.uk/jom-emit