Ticker Tape Synesthesia
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Ticker Tape Synesthesia
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#2I wonder if this happens in ideogram-based languages, such as Chinese
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#3>No figure is yet known for the exact prevalence of "ticker tapers" among the synesthete and non-synesthete population, but an interesting study (Holm, Eilertsen and Price, 2015) found that almost half the general population reported some kind of mild experience of this type.
Amazing, I wonder what else I have no idea of will eventually turn out to be experienced by half the population.
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#4Interesting. I have aphantasia, visual snow, and at least audio-tactile / sound-color / space-concept synesthesia. I often see a grid of dense, contextually sensitive symbolics overlaid onto backgrounds. For example, I see math-like things on white walls, charts & graphs when I look at gray ones, and kanji-like strokes when I watch anime (I studied Japanese years ago).
As a researcher in AGI, it makes me wonder if synesthesia is just a mixture of any senses that happen to develop particularly strong associations rather than a separate pathway. My synesthesia certainly has been getting stronger the more I learn.
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#5I wonder if this happens in ideogram-based languages, such as Chinese
hmm, do you have some hypothesis as to why that would make a difference?
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#6Sort of amazing. Sounds like LitRPG come to life.
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#7I wonder if this happens in ideogram-based languages, such as Chinese
hmm, do you have some hypothesis as to why that would make a difference?
No! For example, I’m a terrible artist, but I don’t think in words. So I think images, but it doesn’t cross over to my aesthetic abilities.
But I wonder if the process of building up words from phonemes or syllables in your mind somehow maps differently from doing it with ideograms.
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#8> No figure is yet known for the exact prevalence of "ticker tapers" among the synesthete and non-synesthete population, but an interesting study (Holm, Eilertsen and Price, 2015) found that almost half the general population reported some kind of mild experience of this type. Amazing, I wonder what else I have no idea of will eventually turn out to be experienced by half the population.
Having an internal monologue (thinking in words/sentences) is actually a minority thing.
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#9The only way I can copy Morse Code in my head is to visualize the letters being typed as I hear them and reading it back. I originally learned code by developing a "reflex" action to write the letter as I heard it; when I went to higher speeds (~50wpm) (before computer decoding was available) I'd type it on a typewriter as I heard it.
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#10I wonder if this happens in ideogram-based languages, such as Chinese
hmm, do you have some hypothesis as to why that would make a difference?
I could probably come up with a bunch of plausible reasons it would make a difference, and a bunch for why it wouldn't.
Seems like a good question to ask for that reason alone... it strikes me as the type of datapoint that would allow researchers to narrow in on what's going on in the brains of people who experience it.