Re: MD Tinnitus

From: David Robjant (David.Robjant@irismurdoch.plus.com)
Date: Mon Jun 07 2004 - 13:57:32 BST

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    Hello MBSJ,

    > [Leibniz said] that a man
    > who lived always by a water mill literally would not hear it.

    MBSJ:
    > it's true. i live right next to the highway, as i have for years. you become
    > accustomed to it(or maybe "inured" is a better word). i don't start to "hear
    > it" until i'm away from it, or if i consiously concentate on it.

    Hm. But if Leibniz is right here, that perception ('apperception' is his
    word) is only of a difference, wouldn't it be the case that one *could not*
    hear the road, rather than that one merely *did not* hear the road?

    Hm.

    My difficulty about my noise is largely to do with the fact that silence
    has, hitherto, been an essential habit for concentration, and just for
    sitting down queitly. If one is listening carefully one's own thought, or
    to the tone of voice in a book, it can be hard not to hear other things too
    - i'll admit that not everyone has an auditory experience with text, but I
    usually do. I'd compare my use of silence in reading and writing to my use
    of blank paper.

    ------
    BTW, "inured", lovely word.

    The herring is a lucky fish
    From all disease inured
    For when it is caught ill at sea
    Immediately it's cured

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