Synesthesia. I was about 20 before I learned it has a name and not everyone has strong colour associations for numbers and letters, or sees a visible map of time in their head, or has music take shape. It never occurred to me to question it because it’s always been my norm.
Like how a day or a year is like a rollercoaster, coming down in the first half to rise back up in the second? It’s like a really odd sine wave for me.
I don’t think the argument about color perception is about the actual color sensing organs (eyes). we can track where that differs i.e. colorblindness
I think it has to do with the way the brain perceives the input from the eyes. so I may see the world inverted from how you see it and I think that would remain true if we somehow swapped eyes successfully.
Synesthesia. I was about 20 before I learned it has a name and not everyone has strong colour associations for numbers and letters, or sees a visible map of time in their head, or has music take shape. It never occurred to me to question it because it’s always been my norm.
My dad thought something was wrong with me when I tried to explain the colors of certain words to him when I was about 10.
Like how a day or a year is like a rollercoaster, coming down in the first half to rise back up in the second? It’s like a really odd sine wave for me.
Now the real question: Do we all see a color the same way?
Would we see it different if we swapped the eyes in the sockets?
I don’t think the argument about color perception is about the actual color sensing organs (eyes). we can track where that differs i.e. colorblindness
I think it has to do with the way the brain perceives the input from the eyes. so I may see the world inverted from how you see it and I think that would remain true if we somehow swapped eyes successfully.