Synesthesia

syn-es-the-sia n. Physiol. Sensation produced at a point other than
or remote from the point of stimulation, as of a color from hearing a
certain sound (fr. Gk, syn = together aisthesis = to perceive).

Today kids we are going to talk about one of the coolest phenomena in human existence "synesthesia". Why is this one of the coolest phenomena in human existence? Because this is my blog and I say it is. So what is it? Synesthesia is an involuntary joining in which the real information of one sense is accompanied by a perception in another sense. So for example you may hear a sound and actually perceive it as a taste. This additional perception is regarded by the synesthete as real, often outside the body, instead of imagined in the mind's eye. Its reality and vividness are what make synesthesia so interesting, as its a violation of conventional perception.

For me this is really interesting do to my love of the quantum mechanical aspects of the human mind and its effect on perception. One could argue that synethesia is a form of quantum non-locality (get ready for the mind melting definition), which is the enforcement of correlations between separated parts of an entangled quantum systems across space-like separations. In other words you have multiple realities in which something exists simultaneously (well sort of). I theorize that with perception your brain functions like a quantum system in which you exist in an unlimited amount of realities or dimensions. Thus giving you the ability to remember things. You are simply making a connection to a different reality to retrieve information.

Your brain can function as a quantum system because of the size of many of the synapses of your neurons (in order for something to fall under the effects of quantum physics it has to be under about 10 microns in size). At some point when the conditions are just right quantum physics take effect rather than classical physics. "Strange" things can happen. Strange things like "quantum entanglement". This is where one object works in lockstep with another object. Think of this as sort of like having two twins that all of a sudden are being controlled by one brain. So a thought might become entangled with another thought in a different reality. So a piece of another reality sort of bleeds over causing an unusual effect. An example would be deja vu, you experience something that has happened already in another reality. The memory spills over, and usually is remembered as being slightly different but familar.

So with respect to synesthesia. There is a condition that exists in the brain in which an entanglement of more than one reality in which the normal perception of a sense is completely different such as tasting sound or seeing noise. This might not make much sense but you have to remember that with quantum systems you have have an unlimited number of possible outcomes. So somewhere in the universe you are actually a three assed, purple furred, cyclops, cat-human that tastes food by looking at it. This my beloved children is absolutely one of the coolest phenomena in the world. And by the way, your face looks like the taste of feet....