IF you read the article, it certainly was not followed by googling his name or the condition for other relevant sources about it.you might want to look up the definition of literally.
he's not feeling their pain, he's experiencing his own psychosomatic pain. no telepathy or transfer of nerve impulses.
It is a neurological condition. Not psychosomatic. If you are going to speak as if your assessment is authoritative about defining what people are being discovered to have & experience, at least read up on it from the medical perspective. That is a different than personal, pre-determined assumptions. It requires weighing some evaluations.
Also, the condition is not limited to a single sense, like pain. "... synesthesia, which is a sensory processing condition that means that, when I experience something with one of my senses, I involuntary experience it through other senses, too".
It is not only seen in this one person either.
Now, I don't care what people go into this already believing. only interested in actual information and proven examined cases. Your assumptions are limited to Just that. No analysis of other available info, only limits to original state of personal opinion. not an attempt to see if there may be something new to learn.
I really find it interesting that a very small percent of the population lives with this and it is only recently being recognized.
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It seems that most people do not become disciplined to focus on practical applications in life.
However, previous comments, extrapolating all sorts of uncontrollable states of his mind with this, have no basis stated in his various article descriptions.