Who can reconcile this auditory illusion with primacy of the senses? (brainstorm or green needle)
This sound recording has me stumped. Decide whether you want to hear "brainstorm" or "green needle" and you hear either one. This is a real mystery to me. The words aren't anything close to each other. Quite a challenge to my premises. Who's up for the challenge to explain it?? I'm looking forward to reactions and explanations. Thanks, Brett
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1okD6...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1okD6...
I think blindly trusting senses explains belief in people seeing aliens and ghosts.
We have to use reason to understand the limitations of our senses and our perceptions, i.e. what we get from our senses after the brain does processing in it.
The same is true for human memory. It may feel like a tape recording of events, but it's not. How clearly we remember is not a good indicator of how reliable memories are.
All of this does not mean we throw up our hands and fall into solipsism. We have to be aware of the limitations of perception and work around them.
Just observe all of the different memes of each time period in history; from old testament times up to the era of our forefathers...that was the 5000 year leap described in a book by that title.
Since though, we have devolved back toward those times past during the progressive and post modern era up to the present time.
I understand that when a recording has 3 syllables recorded, hearing only two is very strange and it may be happening because of the equipment being used. That may be the hardware reproducing and transmitting, the medium of transmission, or the wetware receiving.
What is the point of the exercise? Enlighten me. I decided what I wanted to hear and regardless of what I decided, I heard 3 syllables (gree-nee-dull or something similar) every time. I could just as well have decided it was "john-galt" but that would not be what I heard because that wasn't recorded, transmitted, received, or perceived.
May be there should have been no hints as to what was expected and you would have had a more objective reply.
thing work (though usually I can make the earphones work). But it does not matter. The only way we have of perceiving the world (or other planets, etc.) is by the physical senses. It is the job of the brain to process the information received from them. Apparent contradictions can be resolved and explained. A young child, or untutored adult, can reasonably conclude that the earth is flat, and should not be blamed for insisting that it is so, until it is explained to him what accounts for the appearance that it is flat, and that the sun crosses the sky once a day. The fact that one comes upon a new, strange thing, and an apparent contradiction is not an excuse to turn into a quivering lump of jelly, and become subservient to the Inquisition, Immanuel Kant, or anyone else.
There's another of these that I think is better, the words being Yanni and Laurel. Yanni has slightly higher frequency so is more often heard by young people. Laurel, by contrast, is most often by older people. Sped up or slowed by 30% ensures virtually everyone will hear Yanni and Laurel, respectively.
Greg Gutfeld on Fox, last Sunday, had a great segment on this:
Long version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gP72...
Short version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auFAu...
Here's the why and how: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDiXQ...
The second time I had given consideration to the two words and distinctly heard "green needle."
The "brainstorm" option does not have enough syllables to match the sounds.
So was I programmed to hear "green needle?"
I dunno.
Dunno if that thing signals for the mothership to come either.
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Why and how I’ll leave for later.