[HN Gopher] Ticker Tape Synesthesia
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       Ticker Tape Synesthesia
        
       Author : daverol
       Score  : 25 points
       Date   : 2024-11-09 09:18 UTC (4 days ago)
        
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       | tomcam wrote:
       | I wonder if this happens in ideogram-based languages, such as
       | Chinese
        
         | hatthew wrote:
         | hmm, do you have some hypothesis as to why that would make a
         | difference?
        
           | tomcam wrote:
           | No! For example, I'm a terrible artist, but I don't think in
           | words. So I think images, but it doesn't cross over to my
           | aesthetic abilities.
           | 
           | But I wonder if the process of building up words from
           | phonemes or syllables in your mind somehow maps differently
           | from doing it with ideograms.
        
       | bondarchuk wrote:
       | > _No figure is yet known for the exact prevalence of "ticker
       | tapers" among the synesthete and non-synesthete population, but
       | an interesting study (Holm, Eilertsen and Price, 2015) found that
       | almost half the general population reported some kind of mild
       | experience of this type._
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       | Amazing, I wonder what else I have no idea of will eventually
       | turn out to be experienced by half the population.
        
       | extrn wrote:
       | Interesting. I have aphantasia, visual snow, and at least audio-
       | tactile / sound-color / space-concept synesthesia. I often see a
       | grid of dense, contextually sensitive symbolics overlaid onto
       | backgrounds. For example, I see math-like things on white walls,
       | charts & graphs when I look at gray ones, and kanji-like strokes
       | when I watch anime (I studied Japanese years ago).
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       | As a researcher in AGI, it makes me wonder if synesthesia is just
       | a mixture of _any_ senses that happen to develop particularly
       | strong associations rather than a separate pathway. My
       | synesthesia certainly has been getting stronger the more I learn.
        
       | m463 wrote:
       | Sort of amazing. Sounds like LitRPG come to life.
        
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