Part of a series of weekly TED talks I’ve been watching and thinking about. Have a look, have a think, comment if you’d like. Some interesting thoughts here with regards to accessibility.
Onyx Ashanti: This is beatjazz
Daniel Tammet: Different ways of knowing
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Jason
June 27, 2011
Daniel Tammet: Different ways of knowing
- very interesting perspective for sure. To be quite honest, I don’t associate colour nor shape to numbers, excepting of course the shapes of the number themselves.
The timing of my viewing this TED talk is somewhat remarkable – I had a very similar conversation with some neighbours while at the local park. We engaged in a discussion around our perception of numeric tools, like a calendar. What does it look like to you, is it linear? a circle? is it square? perhaps oblong? My calendar is akin to an eclipse (in case you were wondering
thanks for sharing Kyle – good idea.
JT