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A.I. Odyssey
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If you compared the five senses to five different railroad tracks, and said that each track is linear and cannot ever overlap, then synesthesia will topple that perspective. For people with synesthesia, their senses are nonlinear and interconnected, allowing them to taste shape or even hear color. If you see sensory information as the railroad track, then the actual train is the perception, which is to say the action you perform as a result of the information a sense relays to you. As for those with the condition, the trains collide every day and somewhere in that wreckage, I believe, are doors (insights), and if we could open them, revelations into artificial intelligence technologies will become a reality. The road to understanding how begins with documenting correlations between artificial intelligence and the synesthetic experience - the exclusive purpose of AI Odyssey.
- Added on: Dec 25th, 2007
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Akiva Israel
- Listed in: Science Beliefs & Causes
- Tags: odyssey artificial intelligence ai synesthesia senses avikaida
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