by Leslie » November 24th, 2008, 6:48 pm
I'm just starting to work my way through the original post, and it will take me some time. However, I would like to point out that David Tammet's experience of numbers sounds very much like . This is an ideosyncratic neurological phenomenon, which is to say that someone's synesthetic response to something doesn't necessarily reflect an aspect of reality. So just because Tammet senses different personalities in numbers doesn't necessarily mean that in reality, there is an inherent difference in the numbers themselves - it's just the way the wiring of his brain happens to make him perceive them.
"What are you laughing at?"
"At myself. My little puny self," said Phillipa.
--Rumer Godden, In This House of Brede