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(2014) Consciousness inside and out, Dordrecht, Springer.
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?
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-6001-1_27
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Deroy, O. (2014)., Synesthesia: an experience of the third kind?, in R. S. Brown (ed.), Consciousness inside and out, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 395-407.