false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170347300m/47475.jpg 47475 4 Richard Cytowic's dinner host apologized, "There aren't enough points on the chicken!" He felt flavor also as a physical shape in his hands, and the chicken had come out "too round." This offbeat comment in 1980 launched Cytowic's exploration into the oddity called synesthesia. He is one of the few world authorities on the subject.<br /> <br /> Sharing a root with anesthesia ("no sensation"), synesthesia means "joined sensation," whereby a voice, for example, is not only heard but also seen, felt, or tasted. The trait is involuntary, hereditary, and fairly common. It stayed a scientific mystery for two centuries until Cytowic's original experiments led to a neurological explanation--and to a new concept of brain organization that accentuates emotion over reason.<br /> <br /> That chicken dinner two decades ago led Cytowic to explore a deeper reality that, he argues, exists in everyone but is often just below the surface of awareness (which is why finding meaning in our lives can be elusive). In this medical detective adventure, Cytowic shows how synesthesia, far from being a mere curiosity, illuminates a wide swath of mental life and leads to a new view of what is means to be human--a view that turns upside down conventional ideas about reason, emotional knowledge, and self-understanding.<br /> <br /> This 2003 edition features a new afterword. 46508 1993 The Man Who Tasted Shapes (Bradford Books) total:122|5:32|4:47|3:32|2:11|1:0| 122 466 220 18 3 1 false false Thu Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2000 Mon Dec 03 18:00:05 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 03 18:07:10 -0800 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Aug 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 07 06:10:04 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 27 11:19:45 -0700 2009
* The Introduction
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Who = tastes like turkey
Tasted = orange kool aid
Shapes = swiss cheese

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