Harmonia Philosophica

Category: Speaking-Listening

Animals, Biology Philosophy, Brain, Living, Non-Thinking, Self, Speaking-Listening

2024/03/12

Ignore… you!

Electric fish generate electric pulses to communicate with other fish and sense their surroundings. Some species broadcast shorter electric pulses, while others send out long ones. But all that zip-zapping in the water can get confusing. The fish need to filter out their own pulses so they can identify external messages and only respond to…
Appearances, Harmonia Philosophica, Politics, Silence, Society, Speaking-Listening

2019/05/25

Against politics.

So many people talking. So many people shouting. But the world was not created in noise. Logos did not first appear with sound. True philosophy can never be in favor of politics. In a world where all speak their self, no one knows himself. In a world full of thought, no one can understand the…
Communication, Human, Language, Speaking-Listening, Speech

2017/10/11

Dyslexia. Understanding speech.

Neuroscientists have discovered that a basic mechanism underlying sensory perception is deficient in individuals with dyslexia, according to new study. The brain typically adapts rapidly to sensory input, such as the sound of a person's voice or images of faces and objects, as a way to make processing more efficient. But for individuals with dyslexia,…