🎧Unseen Sound – How Your Brain Processes Inner Music🧠 What actually happens when we hum a melody in our heads—without any external sound? It’s a fascinating idea: there’s no actual sound in our heads, just a representation of sound. It’s as if our mind doesn’t hear music, but rather encodes it—much like data on a CD. Not acoustically, not truly digitally, but in a unique form of internal representation. In our Zoomposium with Daniel C. Dennett, it becomes clear: Consciousness is less a “place” where things happen, and more a process of processing, interpretation, and simulation. Our inner experiences—even something as seemingly direct as music—are constructs that the brain generates in its own “medium.” This raises exciting questions: 👉 What exactly do we experience when we “hear internally”? 👉 How does this representation differ from actual perception? 👉 And could an artificial system ever develop such inner “worlds of sound”? A fascinating insight into the nature of consciousness—somewhere between philosophy, neuroscience, and information theory.
