CronoDAS comments on People being controlled by what they can't perceive consciously - Less Wrong

0 Post author: NancyLebovitz 21 September 2015 04:42PM

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Comment author: CronoDAS 21 September 2015 05:20:46PM *  5 points [-]

You've got it backwards. If the piano player added a fifth beat, then the audience would end up shifting without actually changing their clapping pattern. Like this:

1 (clap)
2
3 (clap)
4
1 (clap)
2
3 (clap)
4
5 (clap)
1
2 (clap)
3
4 (clap)
1
2 (clap)
3
4 (clap)
etc...

So it's the piano player adapting to the audience, not the other way around.