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On 11/4/2010 12:27 PM, Darren New wrote:
> bart wrote:
>> >You're trolling, right?
>> Not at all; the question is interesting and
>> I just don't get it why you limit it the the air?
>> We can easily make and hear sounds under water, can't we?
>
> Of course, in which case the sound is made out of water molecules.
>
> I'm not limiting sound to only be in air. I'm making an analogy.
>
Bad one I think. Sound, etc. isn't made up of air, water, or whatever.
It would be more accurate to say that it is made up of what those things
are "doing". This is not *that* different than words on a page. The
words are not ink on paper, they are the arrangement of those things, in
a specific way, which produces a recognizable pattern. We define that
pattern. Something that either didn't see it as a pattern, or commonly
saw similar natural patterns (unlikely, since the point of such patterns
is to make them distinct enough you *don't* generally see them every
place), wouldn't recognize them as anything other than random
arrangements. This is much like sound. White noise, in principle,
doesn't have any arrangement that we recognize as relevant, while speech
does, *but* there are nuts that claim to *hear* real things in white
noise, because sometimes, by shear chance, such noise produces things
that can be mistaken for recognized patterns, just as you can find a
letter A in a rock, or entire Chinese concepts, in similar rocks, by
shear accident. Mind, like the twits hearing "ghost" voices, the odds of
it being an exact match decreases, the more complex the pattern, to the
point where you may "see" or "hear" something that less subjective
analysis shows **isn't there**.
Never quite got why ghosts can "talk to people" via random noise, but
they never manage to do so in a way that matches "any" computer
analysis, based on the phonetics, sounds, or patterns in the actual
language they are supposedly speaking. Apparently, they can only
communicate with sounds that are **not** used in speech, but that the
human brain "mistakes" as sounding similar. lol
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