The man who hears colour
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The man who hears colour
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Re: The man who hears colour
#2I have fully working eyes, but the concept of self-induced synesthesia is interesting. Especially for the purposes of getting extra-human senses. (Even if they're not that useful in practice.) Of course, if your eyes can already see color; glasses with a screen filter might be more efficient.
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#3Wow that's really cool tech.
Not gonna like though, I thought this was going to be about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphex_Twin
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#4The part that I particularly thought was interesting is when he mentioned expanding it to Infrared and Ultraviolet :)
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#5The part that I particularly thought was interesting is when he mentioned expanding it to Infrared and Ultraviolet :)
Yeah, the idea of "seeing" things normally invisible reminded me of Geordi La Forge's visor in Star Trek TNG.
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#6Wow that's really cool tech. Not gonna like though, I thought this was going to be about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphex_Twin
I thought this was going to be about...
Why?
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#7I expected yet another “synesthesia—isn’t it interesting!” article, and was pleasantly surprised. As a synesthete (grapheme→colour and sound→colour), I find that the topic has been done to death, and non-synesthetic writers tend to romanticise it to the point of outright misrepresentation. Anyway, the brain’s peculiar propensity for conflating senses seems to have proved useful for once. Props to this guy for hacking his brain to get around a stroke of bad genetic luck.
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#8Very cool!
Somewhat related: my main research area is actually in sonification (representing data through non-speech sound) - imagine listening to changes in the stock market through changes in pitch, or loudness, or tempo. We can use sonification for the visually impaired, communicating data and patterns in new places, as this guy has done. But we can also use it to revolutionize how we interact with computers - we can be mobile, multitasking, visually overloaded, and still process data through sonification. IMO a potentially revolutionary technology!
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#9Wow that's really cool tech. Not gonna like though, I thought this was going to be about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphex_Twin
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Definitely going to like. Inadvertently said the opposite of what I meant.
I hadn't considered artificial melding of the senses like this. Came out of left field, so the name of the first (only?) Brit I know of with synethesia popped into my head.
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#10Wow that's really cool tech. Not gonna like though, I thought this was going to be about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphex_Twin
If you want to get un-downvoted I think it would help your case if you provide us with more info than a wikipedia-page about dear Richard.