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Re:Why on Earth are flowers beautiful? (2018) by sph on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @06:10AM (#34147631)
Yes! Synesthesia [1] is one argument for the "interference" theory I mentioned in my comment. Sometimes the wires get tangled and a sense goes to affect a different part of the brain. A strong dose of hallucinogen will surface this behaviour even in people that are usually unaffected.

I have a form of light synesthesia [2], where I intuitively see the concept of time and age as a three-dimensional line, that slowly morphs as I grow older. Whenever someone says "I'm x years old", I subconsciously place them somewhere on that line. (Now that I think of it, years too have a particular three dimensional structure in my mind)

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1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_form

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