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The author hypothesizes that some people have unusual distinctions between their five senses. Why? Because some people reacting to a stimulus in one sense claim to have an experience in a different sense, contrary to the way senses are traditionally understood.

The author assumes that the people studied are telling the truth about their sense experiences and have the capability to accurately represent them. He further assumes their sense experiences are unusual in the sense that most people are not synesthesiacs.

This suggests some people studied failed to report their experiences accurately. If synesthesiacs struggle to use words, they may have normal sense experiences but simply describe them in an unusual way.

The author does not assume there are only five senses. The existence of other senses does not explain why some people apparently confound stimuli between the five traditional senses.

This is not grounds for denying that those experiences are unusual. The group of all synesthesiacs can have sense experiences that are internally consistent but still very different from those of the general population.

This does not imply that synesthesiacs are misrepresenting their experiences or that their experiences are typical. It’s possible synesthetic experiences are unusual in those cultures as well.

This suggests a remedy for those experiences—it doesn’t imply they don’t exist. Synesthetic experiences are not made typical simply because using drugs can make them go away temporarily.

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