Where fans of synaesthesia allege "cross-talk" between folds of cortex (so what?) I prefer this kind of talk:
How our lookings at pictures and our listenings to music inform what we encounter later and elsewhere is integral to them as cognitive. Music can inform perception not only of other sounds but also of the rhythms and patterns of what we see. Such cross-transference of structural properties seems to me a basic and important aspect of learning, not merely a matter for novel experimentation by composers, dancers, and painters.
— Goodman: Languages of Art
(My emphasis.) — bongo fury
Do you cook? I discovered that cooking turned out to be a very good practice for gauging time.I have next to no sense of time. I was blown away when I found out that other people do. — frank
A love of learning is something to be learned. :)When I started trying to teach myself to guage time, like just starting with 10 minutes, I felt an overwhelming aversion to doing it.
I can link that up with other aspects of my personality where I cant handle being pigeon holed or caged in any way. I wonder if personality can influence the skills you have access to.
I found I had to practice to even duplicate it with my voice, — frank
I do seem to come back to the same starting frequency. — frank
I think according to the Private language argument, u shouldn't be able to do this. Do you know what I mean? — frank
back to the same starting frequency. — frank
I found I had to practice to even duplicate it with my voice, — frank
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