15 Jul
2023
15 Jul
'23
1 p.m.
Fons Adriaensen <fons(a)linuxaudio.org> writes:
On Sat, Jul 15, 2023 at 08:48:36AM +0100, Will Godfrey
wrote:
Well, the philosophical question might possibly be phrased as "if no
tree falls down in a forest and there is someone around to hear it, does
it make a sound?"
But this makes more sense as a neurophysiological question, namely how
the hearing adapts to total silence, similarly to how vision adaption in
total darkness is a neurophysiological question.
If you ask "what is total darkness" of a camera film, its answer from a
month in darkness will pretty much be "nothing". If you ask the same of
a digital camera sensor, the answer will be "noise".
This tells you more about the sensor than about darkness.
--
David Kastrup
Fascinating study - well worth reading.
I'd disagree. To me it's just word-play, starting with a
completely fuzzy definition of 'hearing'.
Philosophers have long debated whether silence is
something
we can literally perceive
As they have wasted their time debating if zero is a valid
number or something the devil created to mislead us.