I ran across this Register story earlier today, and wondered how the medical condition described there would affect Doug...
The short description: The more you listen to music, the more likely you are to "hear" music as an audio hallucination. But if you do "hear" music as an audio hallucination, listening to actual music is likely to make the hallucination go away.
Doug listens to music all the time - synthesized instrumental music. It's how he keeps his power from reacting to the music that pervades modern society.
This leads to two questions:
Does Doug need to actually hear music to use his power, or is a hallucination that makes him think he's hearing music enough to trigger his subconscious?
If Doug has a hallucination of hearing music while playing a different song, does that count as two songs cancelling each other out?
-Rob Kelk
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
The short description: The more you listen to music, the more likely you are to "hear" music as an audio hallucination. But if you do "hear" music as an audio hallucination, listening to actual music is likely to make the hallucination go away.
Doug listens to music all the time - synthesized instrumental music. It's how he keeps his power from reacting to the music that pervades modern society.
This leads to two questions:
Does Doug need to actually hear music to use his power, or is a hallucination that makes him think he's hearing music enough to trigger his subconscious?
If Doug has a hallucination of hearing music while playing a different song, does that count as two songs cancelling each other out?
-Rob Kelk
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012