[-empyre-] synaesthesia -- forwarded from Caroline Ward

["Michael Arnold-Mages" <magesm@mesanetworks.net>]

> I agree with Barrie here:
>
> "Without some way of cross-wiring the brain, drugs, surgery, Synaesthesia
> simply isn't available to people with 'normal' brains."
>
> As we know, 'Normal' can experience synaethesia like senses though, is
> there
> a separate term for this? How is this actually separated from those that
> actually suffer the illness?
>
> I was also wondering, as well as discussing how to develop synaethesia
> like
> experiences, are there experiments going on which try to 'normalise' the
> senses of those that suffer from synaethesia?
>