~e; pavlovian EM phone
From
human being <human@electronetwork.org>
Date
Wed, 24 Jul 2002 16:10:38 -0500
a note about something just experienced with
regard to Pavlovian decision-making...
listening to the radio (and in the past, if
it is the tv or the radio) i heard the very
familiar 'ring' of a telephone. and, as always,
i could not tell whether the phone was in the
local environment or in the aether of EM media.
the phone call was recorded during a radio-
report on a speech given by some official. and
yet it was, as usual, not know where the phone
ringing was coming from, here or there.
and it made me wonder how many others, at the
moment of hearing that sound, looked for their
local telephones, instead of instantly recognizing
that the phone is 'not here' but a mimicking of
an iconic sound-sample.
for some reason to me this is worth noting as
very few events have that same confusion of
camouflaging the origins of where something is.
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