objecthood. Another situation where objecthood is typically absent is in “grapheme-color synesthesia.” The term “synesthesia” refers to a kind of “mixing of the senses.” People with the grapheme-color variety have experiences of color when seeing letters: for example, the letter “A” may elicit a luminous redness, regardless of its actual color on the page. Although these color experiences happen consistently and automatically—meaning that the same color is experienced whenever a particular
