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This is an interesting phenomenon because most of us don't experience the world this way. We as humans have agreed for the most part on certain symbols to represent expereinces through our senses and sometimes our wires get crossed differently. As far as who is right in the symbols there are two answers. I think the day to day answer the majority of people in the world agree on a symbol and it becomes truth like red blue green. But jsut because the majority of us can agree on calling an object the same name doesn't mean that's what the object really is. Its tough to say what is really the truth since we only have one vessell to expereince the world, our own bodies. That's something I've always wanted to do is step inside someones body just to see how they perceive light and if the world looks the same. And I never understood how studies show that dogs see in a certain color.

I think alot of senses can get mixed into one symbol as well. Certain symbols like love can have tons of different memories and visuals sounds and smells attatched to them. For example the person with synesthesia learning his words at a young age learns the letter H. and perhaps that child's mother was cooking chicken soup at the time. Later in life the letter H smells like chicken soup. That child has a very good sense of smell and whatever comes into his nose attaches itself to whatever he learns. The defenition of synesthesia itself is kind of just the minority of agreed experience. I wonder how much we could learn or discover if our minds/eyes saw the world differently or more accuratley to what it really is rather than having to dull itself down for our brains.

Its interesting that we use symbols for everything including math to understand the universe that we live in. Symbols that we have assigned end up answering big questions for us even though we created every symbol that make up the answer. We have all the little pieces but just don’t know how everything comes together. Things that are considered actually true to me are things that don’t have emotions involved. I feel that the more emotions are brought into trying to understand something the more opinionated and subjective it becomes. Humans have many emotions and I don’t think in trying to understand why we're here has anything to do with an answer that is rooted in emotion. For example being on earth to help/serve each other or “god” I don’t feel is the truth. I feel like the sum of our parts (our brain) can create the imagination and illusion of more possibilities and answers to our why questions but there is no big why. It just is. I don’t think humans are an exception to nature or an exception to the chemicals and compounds of the earth. I don’t think we are separate from the chemicals that operate our entire body and mind. Me “choosing” to move left or right down the road is composed of millions of chemical reactions bouncing off my environment. It just seems foolish to think that we are so special of creatures that we defy the particle behaviors that bond our body. A human walking around with an iphone is just as natural as a bear with a fish in its mouth or oxygen bonding with hydrogen. It’s all chemicals reacting to one other even if it is a million times more complex than hydrogen bonding with oxygen it is still just a reaction. But I’m not saying we can’t be happy and eat some cupcakes! :-)