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OrphanWilde comments on Stupid Questions, December 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: OrphanWilde 02 December 2015 05:04:33PM 1 point [-]

To clarify what I believe is the question: Why can't solipsist hear brownian motion?

The question is pretty good; Brown Noise derives its name from brownian motion, or rather the discoverer of such, as it is the frequency (or set of frequency) that brownian motion produces.

I'd -guess- the answer is that the motion all cancels out on the average, approximately, and the remaining statistical noise isn't energetic enough to be perceived.