Synesthesia
an experience of the third kind?
pp. 395-407
in: Richard S. BROWN (ed), Consciousness inside and out, Berlin, Springer, 2014Abstract
What is it like to have a synesthetic experience? Most synesthetes have stressed "having trouble putting into words some of the things (they) experience" as if they had to explain "red to a blind person or middle-C to a deaf person". The current definition of synesthesia as a condition in which 'stimulation in one sensory or cognitive stream leads to associated experiences in a second, unstimulated stream" leaves the question open: What do these "associated experiences' consist in?