Thursday, December 22, 2022

Philosophy Wire: Listening. Shhhhh…

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Using a brain-computer interface, a team of researchers has reconstructed English words from the brain activity of rhesus macaques that listened as the words were spoken. [1] Even when there is silence, we listen things. Even when someone speaks not, we imagine of words. Words comprehended. Words unsaid. Silence full of Logos. In the midst of the desert, can you listen to yourself? In the void of everything, can you see anything? The macaque may listen to the words. But he will never understand them. Because their comprehension has nothing to do with anything he hears…

The tree listen as well.
And the rock.
The sound waves transcend the universe.
And yet, no one understand them.

Except those who have something to say…

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