It's called color hearing," he told the BBC, in 1962, before the serious study of synesthesia began, in the nineteen-seventies.
Seeing a color, hearing a tone, smelling an odor, feeling a pain — these types of conscious experience have a phenomenal character, but no others do, on this view.
But we have almost no idea of how to incorporate into such an account the first-person subjective perspective of our concrete experience: what it is like (from the inside) to see a color, hear a symphony, love a friend or hate an enemy.
Feel the colors, hear the sounds, and enjoy the energy from nature as you're amongst it.
For example, it refers to that moment of seeing a color or hearing a sound which occurs not only before one has added the judgment that this seeing or hearing relates to something external or that one is feeling this sensation, but even before one has judged what color or what sound it is.
"The moment of seeing a color or hearing a sound" is prior not only to the thought that the color or sound is the activity of an external object or that one is sensing it, but also to the judgment of what the color or sound might be (Nishida 1990a, 3).
The director's dry sincerity leavens the sentiment of this quasi-autobiographical film, a tale about the burden of constantly being asked who you are and where you come from -- a question that artists of color constantly hear, either from others or themselves.
— _Gill and Jill Bumby (not their real names) sat silently click-click-clicking on their typewriters from behind a table that functioned as a dais, their identities obscured by a red ski cap (Gill) a red wig (Jill), white sunglasses, and bandannas of the same colors, their hearing muffled by glossy white Skullcandy headphones.
"As a total audio nerd, the chance to tell stories about communities of color and hear those voices and perspectives we're out in the field collecting – in a way that's not hemmed in by a news magazine's clock –it's just so freaking exciting," said Code Switch reporter and co-host Shereen Marisol Meraji.
The term "qualia" comes from the Latin word that asks "what sort" or "what kind," but the project expounds on that definition in order to explore how an autonomous entity feels pain, sees color or hears music, explains Diosi.
In the U.S. alone, where marijuana prohibitionist laws were passed intentionally to criminalize Mexicans and cocaine was curbed to supposedly neuter lascivious black men, it surprised no one of color to hear that President's Nixon's declaration of a war on drugs was actually intentional black repression in disguise.
