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In 1980, Richard Cytowic was having dinner at a friends house, when his host exclaimed, Oh, dear, there arent enough points on the chicken. With that casual comment began Cytowics journey into the condition known as synesthesia. The ten people in one million who are synesthetes are born into a world where one sensation (such as sound) conjures up one or more others (such as taste or color). Although scientists have known about synesthesia for two hundred years, until now the condition has remained a mystery. Extensive experiments with more than forty synesthetes led Richard Cytowic to an explanation of synesthesiaand to a new conception of the organization of the mind, one that emphasized the primacy of emotion over reason. Because there were not enough points on chicken served at a dinner almost two decades ago, Cytowic came to explore a deeper reality that he believes exists in all individuals, but usually below the surface of awareness. In this medical detective adventure, he reveals the brain to be an active explorer, not just a passive receiver, and offers a new view of what it means to be humana view that turns upside down conventional ideas about reason, emotion, and who we are. * Not for sale in the United Kingdom and Eire

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title The Man Who Tasted Shapes author Cytowic Richard E - photo 1

title:The Man Who Tasted Shapes
author:Cytowic, Richard E.
publisher:MIT Press
isbn10 | asin:0262531526
print isbn13:9780262531528
ebook isbn13:9780585321738
language:English
subjectSynesthesia, Emotions and cognition, Taste--physiology, Perception, Cognition, Emotions.
publication date:1998
lcc:RC394.S93C96 1998eb
ddc:152
subject:Synesthesia, Emotions and cognition, Taste--physiology, Perception, Cognition, Emotions.
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The Man Who Tasted Shapes
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OTHER BOOKS BY RICHARD CYTOWIC
Synesthesia: A Union of the Senses
Nerve Block for Common Pains
The Neurological Side of Neuropsychology
Page iii
The Man Who Tasted Shapes
Richard E. Cytowic, M.D.
with a foreword by Jonathan Cole, M.D.
Page iv Second printing 1999 First MIT Press edition 1998 First published - photo 2
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Second printing, 1999
First MIT Press edition, 1998
First published in 1993 by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York
A Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam Book.
1993 Richard E. Cytowic
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from the publisher.
Printed and bound in the United States of America
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Cytowic, Richard E.
The man who tasted shapes / Richard E. Cytowic.
p. cm.
"A Bradford book."
Originally published: New York: Putnam, 1993.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-262-53152-6 (pbk.: alk. paper)
1. Synesthesia. 2. Emotions and cognition. I. Title. [DNLM: 1. Tastephysiology.
2. Perception. 3. Cognition. 4. Emotions. Not Acquired / WI 210 C997m 1993a]
RC394.S93C96 1998
152dc21
DNLM / DLC 97-38214
for Library of Congress CIP
Page v
To Bobby, in memoriam,
and in memory of
Reverend Clark A. Thompson and Michael O. Watson
Page vii
CONTENTS
Foreword to the MIT Press Edition
Jonathan Cole, M.D.
ix
List of Illustrations and Tables
xviii
Acknowledgments
xix
Part One
A Medical Mystery Tale
1
February 10, 1980: Not Enough Points on the Chicken
3
2
The World Turned Inside Out
6
3
1957-Down in the Basement: The Making of a Neurologist
9
4
How the Brain Works: The Standard View
18
5
Winters 1977 and 1978: "There Is Nothing Wrong With Your Eyes."
26
6
Direct Experience, Technology, and Inner Knowledge
36
7
March 25, 1980: Blinding Red Jaggers
46
8
Down in the Basement: The History of Synesthesia
51
9
April 10, 1980: "Taste This!"
64
10
Diagnosing Synesthesia
73
11
April 25, 1980: Where Is the Link?
80
12
Painting the Ceiling
89

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13
Summer 1980: Bringing Things to a Close
99
14
September 1983: "Bizarre Medical Oddity Affects Millions!"
111
15
Form Constants and Explaining Ineffable Experiences
118
16
Altered States of Consciousness
127
17
May 21, 1981: Taking Drugs
138
18
June 29, 1981: Bride of Frankenstein, Revisited
144
19
How the Brain Works: The New View
153
20
The Implications of Synesthesia
163
21
October 5, 1982: The Reverend and Martinis
172
Part Two
Essays on the Primacy of Emotion
1
The Anthropic Principle
186
2
Free Lunch and Imagination
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