Apparently 2% of humans have time-space synethesia...

[Cramulus]

ehh it's not that common. Most research pegs it at less than 5% of the population. I guess 1 out of 20 is fairly common, but hardly normal.

[Cain]

Most people know at least 20 people though, right?

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

FWIW I can't visualize the past as "behind" me or the future as "ahead" of me. it's more like a field with areas I haven't been to. That's actually a bad description. More like a room? Only things move all the time.

[Cainad (dec.)]

That makes it only about half as common as left-handedness. Rare, but not "OMFG freak!" rare.

[LMNO]

  I feel so worthless and un-special...

[Cramulus]

you'll just have to get by on your other statistical abnormalities.

[rygD]

Luckily my senses seem to work properly.  Glad I am not one of those freaks.

[Cainad (dec.)]

Luckily my senses seem to work properly.  Glad I am not one of those freaks.

I know, right? I can't imagine what it would be like to see a blue car and have my senses tell me it's bacon, or the number 6, every single time. How inconvenient!

[rygD]

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[Brotep]

IIRC the author of This Is Your Brain on Music claims all infants have something like synaesthesia in that the brain structures involved in perception are as yet undifferentiated. So apparently infants live in a psychedelic wonderland.

[Juana]

/tangent, sorta

It actually makes a bit of sense, because aren't space and time the same "thing"?

I wouldn't say so, partly because our minds exist in time but not space. And isn't is considered kinda like an extra dimension on top of the three we can physically perceive?

[LMNO]

This one, I can handle:  No, space and time are considered space-time.  Einstein figured that one out.


Also "Minds exist in time not space"?  Descartes called, wants his duality back.

[Cramulus]

Vivian Jaffe: Have you ever transcended space and time?
Albert Markovski: Yes. No. Uh, time, not space... No, I don't know what you're talking about.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp0vr1n25u4

[Cain]

IIRC the author of This Is Your Brain on Music claims all infants have something like synaesthesia in that the brain structures involved in perception are as yet undifferentiated. So apparently infants live in a psychedelic wonderland.

I'm fairly sure I've heard that claim somewhere else, too.  Might've even been a science news website.

[Cain]

This one, I can handle:  No, space and time are considered space-time.  Einstein figured that one out.


Also "Minds exist in time not space"?  Descartes called, wants his duality back.

Are you suggesting Hover Cat is mired in Cartesian Dualism?