On Friday, March 14, 2014 9:11:56 AM UTC, Kim Jones wrote: > > > On 14 Mar 2014, at 1:12 pm, Craig Weinberg <[email protected]<javascript:>> > wrote: > > Information must be made evident through sensory participation, or it is > nothing at all. > > > Craig, you have just explained to me the basis of my discalculia. No one > else has ever managed to do that in all my 57 years. > > Music was always instantaneously understandable to me because of the way > it gained my deep sensory participation whereas mathematics was always just > a bunch of squiggles on paper that to me were as dry as dust and as > terrifyingly remote as Egyptian hieroglyphs. Math evoked no sensuous > universe of qualia - for me. I have often felt that for those with a high > degree of numeracy, that the hieroglyphs of mathematics evoke the same > sensory participation as music does for me. Bruno, for example composes and > reads mathematical sentences with the same ease as I have in listening to > even quite complex music and writing it down from ear in standard music > notation. I sometimes refer to myself as a "mathemusician". > > I'll now watch the clip you posted! > > Kim > > > > > Kim Jones B. Mus. GDTL > > Email: [email protected] <javascript:> > [email protected] <javascript:> > Mobile: 0450 963 719 > Phone: 02 93894239 > Web: http://www.eportfolio.kmjcommp.com > > > *"Never let your schooling get in the way of your education" - Mark Twain* > sounds like a kind of synaesthesia. It's not a well defined terms, and it's reasonable the phenomena can occur between processes much more abstract than the five classic senses. I believe I have synaesthesia between some very abstract processes that ends up linking certain things to certain visuals around structure. Caused me a lot of distress as a kid, has been the major saving quantity in later life. Had a cronic stutter as a kid I suspect a link
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