Re: SV: Playing the Pictures/synethesia

["Jehn" <juno7@cfl.rr.com>]

The matter of perceptive capabalities ("primary form of perception") has
come up recently in conjunction with closed adoption aka surrendering a
child at birth with no contact with the mother.  When a child at birth is
rendered "unattached", the senses go into overdrive in an attempt to
preserve the life of the individual which without the mother is felt as
imminent death.  The senses then integrate as many tangential experiences 
as
possible to make sense of a foreign environment. The matter of absolute
pitch has also come up as something all individuals are born with,  but 
from
whatever lack of necessity is not usually kept. In the case of the "free
fall" child, this is usually kept as well.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Cheli-Colando" <kevin@minds-eye.org>
To: "loop" <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 3:16 PM
Subject: Re: SV: Playing the Pictures/synethesia


>   For those of you who are interested in a good overview of synethesia
>
> http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/v2/psyche-2-10-cytowic.html
>
> What I find most fascinating is the idea that synesthesia may be the
> primary form of perception and its just that for most of us, the brain
> takes the different sensory feeds (eyes, ears, touch, etc) and directs
> them to the appropriate expression but for the synesthete, that
> differentiation doesn't quite happen.
>
> Kevin
>
> --
> Wonderful!  Wonderful!
> The sermon of the inanimate is inconceivable
> If you try to hear it with your ears
> You'll hardly understand
> Only when you hear it in your eyes
> Will you be able to know.
> - Dongshan Liangjie
>
>
>
>
>
>