When I saw the sum, this is what happened, not instantaneously; it probably took 2 or 3 secs in total:
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A long white board like thing appears in front of me. It’s divided into equal sized vertical slats, a bit like the white keyboards of a piano, very regular. It stretches to infinity in both directions.
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To the left it’s shrouded in white clouds at distance, to the right it ends in complete black. The whole thing is slightly curved.
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89 is an all black slat, right in front of me. I’m aware of where 0 is. 88 is purple, all the other numbers are white (they’re just slats, none of them are labelled). 116 emerges, shyly, blushing sky blue with the attention.
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I zoom out from the board, check the difference in slats, zoom back in. I verbally (internally, not out loud) confirm to my brain “116”.
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I thought everyone did numbers this way til I met David. I remember having a revelatory conversation with him, I think it was my first subjective understanding of typical mind fallacy. I hadn’t talked with anyone about how you do math before that.
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Conversely, I’d read about number synesthesia in the academic psych literature, but it seemed extremely exotic and probably pathological. Before our discussion, I’d never talked with someone who has/does it.
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