By MICHAEL SHERMER, SKEPTICBLOG
Updated: Wed, 05 May 2010 17:25:15 UTC - An RDFRS Original

Here's another video I shot with Michael Shermer. - Josh

Past Shermer videos in this series:
Skeptic Contacted By Aliens
How to bend a spoon with just your mind

Reposted from:
http://skepticblog.org/2009/01/20/the-magic-cube/

Readers of Skepticblog.org will immediately suspect something is up when I ask you to watch a video and tell me if you think I have ESP or not. Of course I don’t believe in ESP and most of you probably do not either. However, when you see this video consider that it might be something related to ESP that is not, in fact, at all paranormal. That is synesthesia.

Synesthesia is the phenomenon in which the stimulation of one sense modality produces a sensation in a different sense modality, for example, touching something and sensing a color. Go ahead, watch this video, and tell me if you think I have synesthesia.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwKuXhR4v3I (HQ version available at YouTube)


Did you figure it out yet? This video was produced and edited by the amazing Josh Timonen, who produced the other videos in this series on aliens and spoon bending, and he also produced the explanation of the mystery, which we will reveal tomorrow. (We won’t make you wait a week between blog posts for the reveal.) But in the meantime, we would be interested in what you think the solution might be. If you have seen this before and know the explanation, please don’t post it.

What I’m really interested in here is how people think about such problems. Give me your thoughts.

TAGGED: CRITICAL THINKING, RDFTV