Speed, Timothy: Synesthetic Science - Neurodivergent Embodiment as a Method of World-Detection - On the Epistemic Function of Embodied, Non-Representational Perception

This paper formulates the concept of synesthetic science as an independent epistemological method. The point of departure is the observation that dominant scientific paradigms systematically exclude embodied, affective, and neurodivergent forms of perception as subjective, distorted, or methodologically unusable. This position is explicitly rejected here. It is shown that certain neurodivergent perceptual profiles—particularly synesthetic, highly sensitive, and embodied forms of cognition—do not