If you couldn't travel there, what would the feeling be like to actually be in the countryside – we could bring that sensation to the living room," Dr Obrist said.
So for Reid, either "colours" are powers in extended, external objects to bring about sensations in us, in which case they are not sensations had by the mind, or they are sensations had by the mind, in which case they are not extended.
"We were riding up and down the hills, seeing the angles of the embankments, which were very much like the Wipeout tracks, with those little dotted white lines and the cats eyes rushing past us, with the music cranked up... It's all very visceral, and I think in some ways I subconsciously tried to bring those sensations into the track design and to the speed of the ships".
Last year, ID&T brought its Sensation event to the Barclays Center in Brooklyn in cooperation with Live Nation.
In a movie theater the 3-D effect often brings the sensation that things on the screen are coming at you.
No one should view Huang's protocol as miraculous, Young said, "but it is bringing back sensation and some motor function".
But, crucially, this connection is not what brings about sensation.
Sometimes, though, scratching itself may provoke more itching, Dr. Yosipovitch said, possibly through damage to the upper layers of the skin, which release yet unidentified molecules that then bring on the sensation of itch again.
According to the poster, it was an attempt to bring "the street sensation that's sweeping the nation" to the masses, yet the decision to cast really awful non-rapping actor Mario Van Peebles as a really-not-awful rapper proved predictably troublesome.
