SYNESTHESIA

 

 

Synesthesia was discovered at the end of the 19th century by Francis Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin. Synesthesia is a mixture of sensations. It is eight times more common in writers, musicians, artists, scientists and other creative people.

 

According to Ramachandran & Hubbard (2001)*, there is an explanation. We are all born with intertwined connections between different parts of the brain. These connections are then trimmed during development to create the characteristic modular architecture of the adult brain. Synesthesia appears when there are partial connections between adjacent regions of the brain that have not been properly trimmed. If this occurs between brain regions responsible for recognition of numbers and colors, then there will be a number-color synesthesia. If a connection exists between sound and color regions, there is a tone-color synesthesia, etc.

 

Synesthetic abilities are present in all people. They affect a person's ability for conceptual and abstract thinking, as well as the perception of the flow states. One can assume that synesthesia may be one of the tools for sensing the flow states and decoding information.

 

Unexpected outcomes of synesthesia allow us to look at hidden human potentials from another perspective. Most people have synesthesia as an auxiliary tool and its work is unconscious in nature.

 

Synesthesia facilitates investigation of memetics and flow states. The fusion-effect of human communications was discovered due to synesthesia.

 

The study of synesthesia is an important direction of the ISBA.

 

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