z6 -> RE: whats your resonance (Sep. 22 2012 16:29:05)
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Synesthesia is an involuntary reported phenomenon with gargantuan amounts of reports ranging over hundreds of years. Some researchers believe they are getting closer to an understanding using brain imaging. Also, it has the added bonus of not sounding completely nuts. It seems as if the people who report it somehow get their senses, or processing gear, mangled in some way. Implying that Kiko is stating something similar to this guy and his fingerbutting is missing a phenomenon that really is interesting. The way you open your guitar case may indeed have some bearing but I would guess it is so small as to forever remain pointless to even bother about. For example, the way a pool hustler opens his cue case would provide evidence, to the trained eye, of his level of skill, and thus offer an edge to an opponent who might be aware of the level of 'handicap' he would require to make some money. Ergo, the way you open your guitar case might tell the trained eye whether you can play or not, before you have even touched the guitar. But no waves or particles or quantum effects will be massaging your actual ability. That is already where it is and where it will go according to hard work and study and experience. This is not a matter of open- or closed-mindedness it is nothing more than recognizing delusional or corrupt behaviour. (The preacher may believe he has a close relationship with his maker but that does not stop him from making a good living out of the gullible.) Synesthesia is just a name for what seems like a very wide variety of reported experience, but that fact that such similar experiences are reported across vast scales of time and geography, and culture implies it is an area worth pursuing; especially since it is often accompanied by profound abilities. (For example, I once saw a young boy play piano. He was 12 years old. He was simply insanely talented. He babbled on and on about how he saw everything in colors. Everything he played he saw in colors. He had over forty concertos in his repertoire. His teacher said the usual stuff about photographic memory, etc., and I don't know what happened to him. Maybe he ended up competing with all the other crazy virtuosos out there? Maybe he walked into the sea. I do not know. But he wasn't even aware that such things were unusual.) Your guy is just a boob. But you're entitled, like the rest of us, to use any and all psychological tricks or crutches to help our progress or knowledge. But there are differences. Religion and science battled long ago and religion lost. People can believe what they believe. But Kiko doesn't have to believe in what is currently called synesthesia for those reported effects to exist. Indeed, 'accusing' Kiko of demonstrating some kind of belief, similar to your own, touches upon some of the most interesting areas of science and the real differences between loony tunes beliefs (e.g. fairies, or visions of Jesus, or light particles vibrating in such a way as to induce a personal resonant frequency, in a Western scale.) and as yet not understood phenomena. And remember that the reporters of these phenomena are almost entirely unaware that such a thing has a name, or even that others do not have the same experiences. This is not some pathetic creature talking s h i t, it is a body of evidence that bears further investigation, even though that evidence is mostly reports of personal experiences. Personally, I always open my guitar case very carefully. I've dinged more guitars than I'd care to mention. But unless I actually concentrate quite hard when I open the case, I end up putting the guitar in ding peril.
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