The Silent Room Experiment

With katy gilda fry dana kay goddard charles heuvelman stephanie kluba.

The silent room experiment. This was before closed circuit cameras so they had only microphones and five inch thick glass porthole sized windows into. Russian researchers in the late 1940s kept five people awake for fifteen days using an experimental gas based stimulant. Inside the room it s silent. The background noise in the room is so low that it approaches the lowest threshold theorized by mathematicians the absolute zero of sound the next step down is a vacuum or the absence of sound.

Thanks south bank university. In the 1960s psychologist stanley milgram conducted a series of studies on the concepts of obedience and authority. Did i break the world record yes or no. Martin s press hardcover 416 pages.

It was recently published on 1 16 18 by minotaur books an imprint of st. The claim that syntactic manipulation is not sufficient for meaning or thought is a significant issue with wider implications than ai or attributions of understanding. The chinese room thought experiment itself is the support for the third premise. His experiments involved instructing study participants to deliver increasingly high voltage shocks to an actor in another room who would scream and eventually go silent as the shocks became stronger.

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Directed by drew stewart. This book is a great read. Prominent theories of mind hold that human cognition generally is computational. I started reading the silent room on 2 23 18 and finished it on 3 7 18.

They were kept in a sealed environment to carefully monitor their oxygen intake so the gas didn t kill them since it was toxic in high concentrations. So silent that the background noise measured is actually negative decibels 9 4 dba. So i put my own psyche on the line subjecting myself to over an hour of the most intense quiet on earth.