Taking the toneshifting phenonmenon to its logical extreme, if you sent enough emails to Johanna Thompson would they eventually begin to generate autorepsonses?
Sorry. I had to do it. Just had to. I know it's not really a funny situation. Tristan --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > toneshifting... > > It's very cool stuff...definitely bringing out a > unique feature of our > mind, > but you can't really shake your ass to it like you > can with the Surgeon =] > > t o double d > set.go.recordings > > ++++++++++++++ > > this discussion is really beginning to tire me, but > the following just > occurred to me: > > when you reach a certain amount of feet under water, > only a small portion > of the spectrum of light penetrates. effectively you > can only physically > see black and white, because the other colors are > not present. > nevertheless, you perceive color because your brain > inserts color where > there is none in order to bring your environment > more in line with what it > thinks it should be... > > it seems plausible that toneshifting is merely the > audio equivalent of > this process. in a stark environment (in this case, > with very few sounds, > rather than few colors) the brain attempts to insert > melody because that is > what it thinks should be there. perhaps an effort to > maintain balance or > status quo, familiarity, normalcy, etc. > > blah, blah... > h > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/
