Tuesday, January 05, 2010

Great Regulars: Message and transmission really

do have little in common. No analysis of the telephone signal will tell you anything about what the caller is saying to you. Any more than a study of paper and ink will give you any insight into David Copperfield or an examination of the Globe Theater will help you understand Hamlet. Likewise, the frequency of a sound-stimulus and the electrical response the stimulus evokes in the auditory cortex are entirely dissimilar.

from Frank Wilson: When Falls the Coliseum: That's What He Said: Taking apart your answering machine won't tell you anything about the message someone left on it

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