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[–] FlyingSquid@mander.xyz 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Shameful that this is so upvoted.

[–] FlyingSquid@mander.xyz 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's an article about it in the New York Times which apparently goes into much more detail, but I don't have a subscription- https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/10/science/silence-sound-hear.html

It is excerpted in this Slashdot post, however, and that may give you enough information to understand it better: https://science.slashdot.org/story/23/07/10/2343221/silence-is-a-sound-you-hear-study-suggests

To sum up, it's not about total silence, it's about perceiving gaps in louder sounds as "sound" rather than the lack of sound.

 

Do we only hear sounds? Or can we also hear silence? These questions are the subject of a centuries-old philosophical debate between two camps: the perceptual view (we literally hear silence), and the cognitive view (we only judge or infer silence). Here, we take an empirical approach to resolve this theoretical controversy. We show that silences can “substitute” for sounds in event-based auditory illusions.

I don’t have access to the full paper (I probably wouldn’t understand it anyway), but the idea that we can “hear” silence is pretty mind-blowing to me.

[–] FlyingSquid@mander.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

I just came in to discuss that segment. It made me sick to my stomach.

[–] FlyingSquid@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Or is it.... EeeeeeEEEEEEEEEeeeEEEEEEeeEEEEeeeeeEEEEEEEEE

[–] FlyingSquid@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks. My mother is an aficionado of Persian rugs and she loved this. You made an old lady's morning.

[–] FlyingSquid@mander.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

I remember how in The Matrix movies, humans blocked out the sun to stop the computers from taking over. Looks like we're going to ask them whether or not that's a good plan first in our timeline.

 
[–] FlyingSquid@mander.xyz 7 points 1 year ago

Not the science we asked for, but the science we need.

[–] FlyingSquid@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Great. Capitalism literally makes you stupid.

[–] FlyingSquid@mander.xyz 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I just did some Googling and apparently, that is a more recent development (at least for physics, medicine and chemistry). Science Nobel laureates used to be young, or at least much younger, but now they are skewing much older. This article discusses it: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37578899

[–] FlyingSquid@mander.xyz 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I think once you win a Nobel, it's okay to rest on your laurels.

[–] FlyingSquid@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

The Power Glove. It's so rad.

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