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Friedrich Nietzsche, in his seminal piece, On the Genealogy of Morals: A polemical Tract, proclaimed that Knowledge needs many eyes. In our quest for the elusive concepts of Knowledge and Truth, we will need many eyes. To be exact, 90 pairs of eyes. This blog will provide you with a forum outside the four walls of the classroom to share, comment, critique, and engage critically with the TOK course.
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6 comments:
14ir,
I think you are talking about the condition called synesthesia.
Can you develop the point you want to make about it?
This condition came up a couple of times in class when we were talking about Sense Perception as a Way of Knowing.
It is supposed to be a "neurologically based phenomenon"(Wikipedia) where stimulation of one sense results in some response in another one, a secondary one. Example: i hear a lullaby and i literally see blue skies and palmwine (a bit far fetched but you get the picture).
So yes, I guess some people can hear shapes and taste sounds. I think there was even a Discovery Channel special partly on it-something about the next stage of human evolution. Some great artists(musical, visual etc)have been noted to have this condition.
The question that came up though was the extent to which this limited or enhanced our knowledge of the world. Another was, if the average person is seeing colors and a synesthete is hearing them what does that say about the validity and reliability of the knowledge we acquire through our senses?
I guess its just one more area where 'the eye of the beholder does not suffice'
well, in my opinoin i believe that when one sense organ fails the other are able to replace it in that we might use our ears as tasting a phenomena or as you said we might be able to hear shapes, but i believe this only happens when one of our sense organ fails and hence, it might not happen in normal case and i guess this things comes gradually.
Melaku,
Sythesthesia is a recognized condition and is not to do with sense organ failure.
It has been claimed that we all atart out as synesthetes - it's just that most of us lose it in early development. And many synesthetes say that they are very attached to their ability/condition and would not like to lose it - for these people it is an extra ability; not a disability at all.
A Google search will quickly bring up much to learn here...
I think i get something from my personal experience if you could answer my questions"questions you may not be able to answer..." then you will understand that you can hear things that you can not...It is so hard to explain for people without this experience.Have you ever felt like..
when you do something it seems that it is your second time in a reality.I meen for example if i meet some one and i will feel that i ahve mate him before at the same place and in the same setuation. Still i know it is hard to explain unless you experience it.
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