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Okay, a question for anyone who cares to work their mind out. The moderators have left me a message saying that I've never left a post, and that I need to speak up.
If synesthetic connection is essentially arbitrary (being that it varies from person to person, e.g. red may be creamy for some or it may be the note A minor for others), then how could synesthesia be anything other than a neurological mnemonic device?
mnemonic: a device such as a pattern of letters ideas or associations that assists in remembering something.
Also, my sister (a neuroscientist) is studying this phenomenon in the Houston Medical Center at Baylor College of Medicine. She says that there has not been any correlation established between artistic thought and synesthesia... that is to say that a synesthete is no more likely to be an artist than you or me. So if the power of synesthesia is simply a freakish memory boost then would you say that it is advantageous or would you say that it is not advantageous to have synesthesia. I personally feel pretty happy without it. I think that if I had a bunch of arbitrary sensory hangups then I would be impaired as an artist/aesthetician (and artistic expression is what I am working to be great at).
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