CYTOWIC on SYNAESTHESIA
228 religion means Sanskrit re ligio linking back beyond pairs of opposites
THE MAN WHO TASTED SHAPES Richard E CYTOWIC UK 1994 [US 1993]
SYNESTHESIA IS LOCKED TO THE STIMULUS
syn = Gk join
THE INNER REACHES OF OUTER SPACE; METAPHORS AS MYTH & AS RELIGION J CAMPBELL HARPER & ROW 1986
METAPHORS IN THE HISTORY OF PSYCHOLOGY DE LEARY CUP 1990
METAPHORS WE LIVE BY G LAKOFF, M JOHNSON CHICAGO UP 1980
240 Reality is a cliché which we interpret by metaphor [reality is a cliche from which we escape by metaphor, Wallace Stevens Poet 1982 Adagia
J GARDNER THE ART OF FICTION BANTAM 1983
Bettelheim 1977 Fairytales liberate the emotions
DARWIN THE EXPRESSION OF THE EMOTIONS IN MAN & ANIMALS 1872/1965 Chicago UP
243 What distinguishes us is our better developed ability to express emotion [all creatures express some degree of emotion] not our better developed ability to reason.
LEWIS MUMFORD HISTORIAN - ROLE OF CLOCK IN CHANGING CIVILIZATION.
AR LURIA THE MIND OF A MNEMONIST 1968 BASIC BOOKS
SIEGEL & WEST OR SIEGEL & JARVIK 1975 DRUG INDUCED HALLUCINATIONS IN ANIMAL AND MAN. LSD
William Cooper - Behold A Pale Horse ST HENDERSON DAYLIGHT & ITS SPECTRUM 1977 J WILEY
ANTHROPIC PRINCIPLE [ strong] an important part of quantum physics. 'THE FUNDAMENTAL STRUCTURE OF THE UNIVERSE IS DETERMINED BY INTELLIGENT OBSERVERS'.
HOCKNEY OLIVER MESSIAEN V NABOKOV COLOURED HEARING 'SPEAK MEMORY' DOVER 1966
SCRIABIN PROMETHEUS SYMPHONY 1915
233 IT IS HARD FOR MOST PEOPLE TO LOOK BEYOND THE ILLUSION OF COLOUR CONSTANCY. TRY WEARING A BRIGHT RED JACKET AND NOTICE HOW EVERYTHING AROUND YOU TAKES ON A REDDISH HUE. HOW DOES THE RED CHANGE AS YOU WALK FROM SUN TO SHADE?
IF YOU SUCCEED IN SEEING THIS REALITY, HANG THE JACKET UP AND TRY SEEING MORE SUBTLE CHANGES.
NOW PONDER HOW MANY PEOPLE LOOK BUT NEVER SEE DURING THEIR ENTIRE LIVES.
The light adapted eye is:
MOST SENSITIVE TO BLUE & RED
SENSITIVE TO GREEN & YELLOW
NOT VERY SENSITIVE TO VIOLET.
61 Daylight blue - red as day goes on
18-19 SENSE ORGANS are energy transducers which transform:
Electromagnetic energy into vision
Mechanical energy into hearing & touch
Chemical energy into taste & smell 93 taste functions by fifth gestational month
30 AUTOSCOPIC seeing - self seeing = out-of-body experience of floating up to ceiling etc
30 Reversed and inverted vision as if standing on head. Yet seems natural & causes no problems
31 Polyopia multiple seeing looks at a rose looks at wall & sees bouquet
31 Palinopia seeing exactly the same scene again a few minutes later
31 Metamorphospia = shape & size distortion things shrink or swell or break in pieces and slide over one another
31 In brain damage colours can melt off object. Sparks flames & flickering seen.
73 135 1 in 9,600 haveTemporal Lobe epilepsy no fits but peculiar subjective experiences - disordered time sense autoscopy sudden strong emotional feelings sensory illusions [smell, taste] distortions deja vu jamais vu religious bliss clarity of mind certitude of ‘this is it’ synesthesia = seizure medication
136 TL stimulated - can see people in this world and other and are aware of this
161-2 TLE = compulsive thinking florid psychosis episodes when unable to tell dreaming from reality. Rationality is overcome in 50% TLE only 10% in other epilepsy types
137-8 152 so look at TL and part of limbic system buried deep within it. Its turned up whilst cortex is turned down
152 anencephalics born with no brain can discriminate sensations and give gustofacial reflexes.Birds have no cortex but complex behaviour. So cortex is just a middle artist in multiplex parallel recursive [196 reciprocal]pathways [volume and neuro transmitting]dabbling with regions that are ultimate arbiters of behaviour and answer finally to the emotional limbic system, 157 which is ultimate core of every dvision of nervous system. 161 more output facilities to cortex than input
220 We aren’t here to conquer the world [science]
220 or to commune/ be absorbed into it [Romance, which denies that thought is constrained by any context]
220 we interact, changing and being changed. We live by metaphors which change and are changed by the world through our beliefs and actions
220 Metaphor joins reason and imagination. The elaboration of metaphors is an imaginative form of rational thinking 240 very structure of brain and its concepts use metaphors and form constants to often impute order to /distort random [T Gilovich 1991] phenomena by creating a story with highlights and ommissions,.
219 Sorry, I wasn’t thinking
222-4 Cognitive mind needs reasons = internal dialogues and speaking out loud to others Looks to future, attracted to desire which can be only temporarily quenched, possession, control of what it understands by analysis and explanation. Its always doing, pushing, insisting, forcing, trying to change circumstances to suit its desires. Gets lost in feelings and creates dramas.Creates resentment and guilt when we don’t get what we want
243 Artily crafts a world of fiction into which our total awareness is drawn
222-4 Emotional mind is attracted to experience It changes desires to suit circumstances. Acceptance of objects and situations which present themselves. Quietly receptive, living in present. Feels feelings without getting lost in them. Opening up flexibly to experience, patient. Invites what we want to come to us. Things constantly change so trust what you can’t see instead resisting or forcing change. Transformation is always imminent. Rapture of being alive.
229 Has certainty control surety deep sense of knowing
217 The function of the artist is to penetrate the visible world to illuminate the mystery behind it.
228 There are facts existing beyond our ability to conceive. We can feel their existence.
219 evoke the psyche rather than analyse it for transcendence [to climb over or beyond] beyond your self
217 the poet can discover more truth than the historian 220 Experience is noetic
214 strings are pulled at a level we have no sense of [subception, unconscious knowledge, below awareness perception means to recieve/to take into awareness] to produce multiple modes of thinking these are unified and not fractured and warring
214 despite our metaphoric concepts based in the ‘one at a time’ logic of experience, our minds are simultaneously analytical and intuitive appositional and propositional holistic and sequential
215 We can only scurry one at a time amongst these mental facets.
215 only the linguistic facet is fully accessible toand can communicate about awareness and what we call reasoning 229 and even then it can actively mislead. 219 but there is a dimension beyond which words cannot reach.
229 Below this is referrable God transcendence inner knowledge. Then there is that which can’t be said [intuition?]
214 Examples of subception are the ability to learn[241 implicit memory for words] during anesthesia, blindsight, prosopagnosia
213 I write because I don’t know what I think until I read what I say
213 The cognitive and emotional minds are 2 aspects of same mind. 214 They differ in content, mode of organisation, goals.
208 rise above your emotions!
207 Orientation is central to our conceptual system as it is to having a body. 209 This need gives rise to orientational metaphors
206 Emotional irrational self is wise beyond knowledge
206-7 Metaphor sees similar in dissimilar but not as part of a rational analysis.Metaphor is experiencing one thing in terms of another. Our conceptual system is metaphorically based.
203 Porosthetic tools
201 Top 5% USA with high mathematical ability are left handed with immune disorders. Those with immune disorders only have learning disabilities.
194 Consciousness is not reason but a type of emotion. It is not a thing but a relationship/emotional state between oneself and the external world.
193 The fragmentary nature of perception. The sensory gateways feeding into brain establish their own conditions for the creation of images and knowledge.
192 Emotions cannot be set down in formal terms. They can only be understood by living life and feeling our way through it.
194 Underlying emotional state constantly acts on the entire nervous system. 195 This is why faith/placebo effect is so powerful.
193 Each act of recognition and recall is a fresh, creative process and not merely a retrieval of some fixed item for storage.
178 Natural languages have innate, complex, subterranean structures that become disrupted the moment you start to bring consciousness to bear on them.
178 The objective world view refutes direct experience of the 185 188 subjective emotional heuristic mind in favour of abstractions like mathematical statements of formal logic used to solve formal problems. 198 The successful replication of a few specific reasoning tasks is not a formalisation of general thinking.
207 Objective person thinks they comprehend something in terms of its inherent properties.
176 Time was experienced personally and directly as a cycle of recurring events. Now we’re governed by an abstact idea incorporated into a disembodied machine.
146190-1 voracious Brain uses 25% body energy IN LIMBO! Monkeys 10% Dogs 5%. Most is used chemically. Hardly any for mental work. Intuition is most efficient use of partial information. Brains slow down increase in entropy and degradation of universal energy.
169 brain has no sensory nerves and is not aware of its own physical substance. Any probing will result in a sensation not in the brain itself but in a peripheral body part. The brain is aware of a reality it has a readiness potential to create outside of itself.
169 There is not an identity between stimulated neurons and spatial location of subjective experience
168 something other than the entity we call our ‘self’ using free will is in charge of our minds and the direction of our lives. 199 A sort of adaptive critic creating back propagation [Paul Werbos]
194 Continually updated and changing Memory register is held to direct [not just responding to stimulus]behaviour is in limbic system
200 It checks the limbic critical evaluation which has generated an emotional charge and the cortex’ representational hold of reality [model] on which the critique/evaluation is based.
200 The critical evaluation takes twice as long to process/clock 5 hz [theta rhythm] as the modelling process/clock10 hz [alpha rhythm]. The limbic calculations are made at 400 HZ. The cortex also calculates quickly. The 2:1 ratio gives the slower critic time to adapt.
167-8 We are unique in being advanced in limbic and cortical dimensions. The limbic seat of emotional and subjective traits is most advanced. The motivational force of the limbic brain decides valence.of questions of meaning and purpose.not a detached objective analytic organ which the lesser developed cortex could have evolved into. The cortex informs choices with reason, but to balance with emotional logic, the limbic should have fundamental sway.
196 Limbic system is intermediate in brain’s evolution. It regulates the cortex more strongly than vice-versa.
168 what if the cortex had become superior?
167 We have lost our multisensory awareness from our consciousness. Emotion forms the gateway.
163 Emotion has alogic of its own and must be understood on its own terms
163 Synesthesia localized to limbic system of left hemisphere
196 Synesthesia depends on limbic system. It is basis for more abstract cross-modal associations like language.
168 Hippocampus a major component of limbic system
164 In Synesthesia Cortex energy metabolism is on a knife edge and has no reserves
161 In coming out of a coma, emotion has to recover before intellect
160 Limbic and cortex systems co-evolve
161 hippocampus & limbic system are gateway to perception
158 Information is processed in many places at once. Up to 30 significant regions in distributed cortical system
159 Cultural not genetic mutation
151 Profound decrease in already over sensitive cortical metabolism during synesthesia as all change occurs in left hemisphere. Stimulus like a smell = this massive redistribution of brain metabolism turning off cortex
236 With anyone even the simple drinking of coffee significantly changes brain chemicals ratios.
135 4 in 100 seizures are epileptic syn - beautiful places & music
135 numbness in parts [wrist] bitter taste nausea intense internal heat
122 amyl nitrite intensifies
77-8 synesthetic perceptions always generic blobs curves lines spirals grids cross hatchings lattices triangles geometric shapes which sometimes replicate [ie concentric circles like pond ripples]
121 seen as natural & not confusing
101 point-cylinder-cone-sphere-cube-point under stimulus
77 memory can be limitless and without distortion as synesthesia is used as an infallible mnemonic aid![Luria]They are convinced what they see is real by a gut feeling [hippocampus/limbic brain? which provides emotional sense of conviction of ideas & beliefs] = ecstasy revelations of absolute truths
130 Remember every senseof an object as if now recall sensually rich but conceptually meagre
127 synesthesia from left the limbic system cortex not in it no brain pathology
132 In primary cortex damage secondary areas take on a life of their own. Astoundingly specific hallucinations occur without any outside influence. Large amounts of sensory cortex are not necessary to have sensory experiences!
The conscious perception of experience does not take place in cortex.
134 Multiple minds
116 Ability to understand without knowing how
119 Can run in family ratio of 1 in 6 [priest lines!]
81 Metaphors are experienced literally - cheese tastes sharp. Maybe syn gives rise to sayings. Ez was a poet!
204 there are principles of linguistic understanding that cannot be formalised..outside factors that are exponentially large cultural interpersonal nuances
237 every major division of nervous system has a physical structure of brain tissue related to emotion.
Basal ganglia have amygdala. Spinal cord cell column nuclei. The nervous system has a central emotional core.
237 Ez! Lack of cerebral oxygen = hallucinations
video 10 4.56 smell
appositional and propositional holistic and sequential
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