Bearing Witness To Mirror Touch Synesthesia - Psychology Today

Folks dismiss telepathy as woo-woo, but there's an empirical basis writes Maureen Seaberg. It all boils down to mirror touch neurons, brain scanning monkeys, and a bunch of plucky STEM students from Staten Island who aren't afraid of asking tough questions avoided by tenured professionals. If you don't have access to high tech equipment found only in hospitals and at universities, there's a low-fi solution to consider: poetic confluences. It's when thoughts and phenomena aren't interpreted literally but symbolically, playful puns intended to nudge the conscious half into an epiphany. Despite the necessarily academic title of Etzel Cardeña's thesis, "Mind Leaks: A Commentary on Wooffitt's Poetic Confluence: A Sociological Analysis Of An Enigmatic Moment, the concepts are deceptively simple but illustrate the potential within our minds. (CS)

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