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A Shepard Tone is a weird thing to hear.

It sounds like an infinitely rising (or falling) tone that never ends. It appears to keep rising (or falling) no matter how long you listen to it.

It's yet one more reason why I rile against anyone who claims they have personally experienced some mystical thing and so they are 100% convinced that it's true. Perception is not reliable.

Listen to the file linked above and see for yourself.

For the music theory geeks, here's the Fourier transform to the frequency domain:



Weird, eh?


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2) You can't have an abortion no matter how much you don't want a child.
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Re: Shepard Tones [Re: Diploid]
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Do we need another reason to rile against anyone who claims that anything is 100% true? :lol:

The shepard tone thing was interesting. . .


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Re: Shepard Tones [Re: Diploid] * 1
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That was cool.


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" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

With much wisdom comes much sorrow,
The more knowledge, the more grief.
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Re: Shepard Tones [Re: Icelander] * 1
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far out


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Re: Shepard Tones [Re: andrewss]
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Hmm, I think I can notice when the tone shifts into a higher pitch and recommences the downward cycle again... dunno if I would have noticed it if I hadn't been explicitly told what it was though.


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Re: Shepard Tones [Re: deCypher]
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deCypher said:
Hmm, I think I can notice when the tone shifts into a higher pitch and recommences the downward cycle again... dunno if I would have noticed it if I hadn't been explicitly told what it was though.


Yeah, the sound seems to roll like  whimpering, but not annoying.

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Re: Shepard Tones [Re: Diploid]
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don't mean to sound arrogant or what have you , since you did mention the properties of the sound before i had a listen , but i could totally tell that the tone isn't rising nor falling.

to me it sounded more like it kept looping/overlapping or something liek that...
a glitch..


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It's yet one more reason why I rile against anyone who claims they have personally experienced some mystical thing and so they are 100% convinced that it's true. Perception is not reliable


Do me a favor , if you're still into experimenting with psychedelics and try to take a large dose of mushrooms in complete darkness and silence.
Much less to unreliably perceive.

I would love to see what a rational person , skeptical to the existence of anything mystical , would conclude after an experience like that.

Map it out for me.
Show me where it is that the delusion steps in.
Take your riling to a completely different level.
After the experience.. take note of what just happened.

F.e At that point.. it felt like there was someone else in the room with me. Then you can try to rationally explain why that happened - Right hemisphere of the brain ..blablabla

** My experiences/conclusions which sadly classify me as mystical among many people.

I went into psychedelics a complete atheist trying to overcome , debunk and quite frankly SHIT ON everything these druggies were able to conjure up with their cowardly wishful thinking.

My attitude has drastically changed , because i went into the experience WANTING hallucinations in order to examine them , play with them and see just how much  my imagination and psyche can fabricate for me.. but i got something i didn't expect AT ALL.
I got into a mindstate where even if i had hallucinated a big 50 foot shit monster it wouldn't have concerned me.
If an angelic quire started singing to me , i would not notice it.
GOD HIMSELF appearing to me , would have been a distraction.

I abandoned thought all together.
It was just me. Thats it.I am. Its me !
end of story. the realization of realizations...
the only real truth... the only thing i can guarantee without a doubt 100%.
Beneath all the nonsense my mind can conjure up through its continuous journey of perceptions and delusions , i know who i am.

- The Noumenon playing a phenomenal game.

What we often do , is try to elaborate mentally on an experience that cannot be conceptually grasped in the first place. Thus fantasy.. or mysticism ensues as a cause of reflecting back from a state where the mind is in its unreliable perception mode.

These are normal outcomes of a mind trying to fill in that  gap .
I know better than to shit on these people because they , just like many others are trying to 'figure it out'. And we're clumsy , make mistakes and sometimes  we make stuff up just to feel better about not being able to.

To rile against them is to miss this. It's like getting angry at a child knocking something over because it doesn't walk proper yet.

I think you lack experience all together and could maybe intellectually benefit (if nothing else) from delving a bit deeper and investigating what it really is that makes these  people "BELIEVE".

I see where you're going with this thread but i have to ask you - What do YOU think about infinity ?
Is it really nothing more than a concept arising as the result of the mind being tricked ? A defective thesis ???

Why is nature fractal ?
Why cant we EVER measure how long a piece of string is ?

What happens when we find something smaller than quarks ? (even though that hasn't REALLY been found at all)
Even science is clumsy , makes mistakes.. and sometimes.. it just makes up shit so that it all fits together.

Who are you really riling against ?


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All my posts in this forum are strictly fictional.
They are derived from an acute mental illness , from which i am forced to lie compulsively.
I have never induced any kind of mind altering substance in my life  and i have no intentions whatsoever of doing anything illegal.
If I have ever suggested such a thing it would have most likely been , due to my personality disorder and i probably do not remember it at all..

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Re: Shepard Tones [Re: jivJaN] * 1
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try to take a large dose

You erroneously assume I haven't.

I think you lack experience all together and could maybe intellectually benefit (if nothing else) from

Tell ya what: when you follow through with the song and dance you did here months ago regarding applying for JREF Challenge, then you'll have the right to lecture me, eh?

i could totally tell that the tone isn't rising nor falling

The tone is falling. This is shown in the image of the spectrum.

You have a hearing deficit. See a doctor.


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1) You can't get married to your spouse who is the same sex as you.
2) You can't have an abortion no matter how much you don't want a child.
3) You can't have a certain plant in your possession or you'll get locked up with a rapist and a murderer.

4) We need a smaller, less-intrusive government.

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Re: Shepard Tones [Re: Diploid] * 1
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Diploid said:
try to take a large dose

You erroneously think I haven't.

I think you lack experience all together and could maybe intellectually benefit (if nothing else) from

Tell ya what: when you follow through with the song and dance you did here a months ago regarding applying for JREF Challenge, then you'll have the right to lecture me, eh?

i could totally tell that the tone isn't rising nor falling

The tone is falling. This is shown in the image of the spectrum.

You have a hearing deficit. See a doctor.




Quoted for relavance.


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"Don't believe everything you think". -Anom.

" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

With much wisdom comes much sorrow,
The more knowledge, the more grief.
Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC

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Re: Shepard Tones [Re: Diploid]
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Diploid said:
For the music theory geeks, here's the Fourier transform to the frequency domain:



Weird, eh?




That's not for the file you included, right? 

Wouldn't this be for a tone that is perceived as increasing in pitch?

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It's yet one more reason why I rile against anyone who claims they have personally experienced some mystical thing and so they are 100% convinced that it's true. Perception is not reliable


Yep.  I distrust anyone who even claims anything close to absolute confidence in their observations, let alone their conclusions (alien space ship et cet) which are exponentially more tenuous.

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F.e At that point.. it felt like there was someone else in the room with me. Then you can try to rationally explain why that happened - Right hemisphere of the brain ..blablabla


This thought seems to betray a fundamental error in your thinking about this issue.  You are claiming something mystical or whatnot, and it is not anyone's burden to refute the claim.  Failing to explain what you percieve does nothing to imply mystical hocus pocus is more or less likely.

I'm unsure what your explaining and what it is you believe that is mystical. 

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I know better than to shit on these people because they , just like many others are trying to 'figure it out'. And we're clumsy , make mistakes and sometimes  we make stuff up just to feel better about not being able to.


Why would anyone shit on these people and what does it matter?

You seem to imply this is a common behavior, but I don't know... I hope you aren't personifying these conjectures and beliefs so that "shitting on someone" is describing another's expression of doubt in a conclusion, et cet.

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I see where you're going with this thread but i have to ask you - What do YOU think about infinity ?
Is it really nothing more than a concept arising as the result of the mind being tricked ? A defective thesis ???


How is infinity a thesis at all?  I don't get what your asking for here.  Infinity is a useful concept that like everything else in mathmatics is an attempt to represent aspects of our world.  Not much to say about it beyond that.

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Why is nature fractal ?



What do you mean "nature is fractal"?  I'm unsure of the assertion and so cannot explain it.  As for examples of self-similarity at various scales, I imagine it occurs due to phenomena constant amongst these different scales.  If the same conditions exist at various scales, the same solutions are also present.

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Why cant we EVER measure how long a piece of string is ?


Why can't we?  I just measures a piece of floss I cut.  1.0 ft.  That really is how long it is and is a completely accurate measurement of its length- seems to counter your statement.

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What happens when we find something smaller than quarks ? (even though that hasn't REALLY been found at all)
Even science is clumsy , makes mistakes.. and sometimes.. it just makes up shit so that it all fits together.


What does science "make up"?  To the extent this is implied as exceptional behavior somehow different than the usual conjecture and reasoning/supposition, I don't know what you refer to.

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Re: Shepard Tones [Re: johnm214] * 1
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Wouldn't this be for a tone that is perceived as increasing in pitch?

Yep, you're right. It's to demonstrates the principle. Turn it up-side-down. :tongue:


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Republican Values:

1) You can't get married to your spouse who is the same sex as you.
2) You can't have an abortion no matter how much you don't want a child.
3) You can't have a certain plant in your possession or you'll get locked up with a rapist and a murderer.

4) We need a smaller, less-intrusive government.

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Re: Shepard Tones [Re: johnm214]
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That tone made me a bit nervous...reminded me of the "come up" of the heaviest dose I've ever taken...kept going deeper and deeper and deeper.  :mushroom2:


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Re: Shepard Tones [Re: Cups]
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I can relate to that experience.:mushroom2:


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" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

With much wisdom comes much sorrow,
The more knowledge, the more grief.
Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC

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Re: Shepard Tones [Re: Diploid]
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Diploid said:
try to take a large dose

You erroneously assume I haven't.

I think you lack experience all together and could maybe intellectually benefit (if nothing else) from

Tell ya what: when you follow through with the song and dance you did here months ago regarding applying for JREF Challenge, then you'll have the right to lecture me, eh?

i could totally tell that the tone isn't rising nor falling

The tone is falling. This is shown in the image of the spectrum.

You have a hearing deficit. See a doctor.



lolumad ?


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All my posts in this forum are strictly fictional.
They are derived from an acute mental illness , from which i am forced to lie compulsively.
I have never induced any kind of mind altering substance in my life  and i have no intentions whatsoever of doing anything illegal.
If I have ever suggested such a thing it would have most likely been , due to my personality disorder and i probably do not remember it at all..

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Re: Shepard Tones [Re: johnm214]
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How is infinity a thesis at all?


In logic an infinite regress argument is "a distinctively philosophical kind of argument purporting to show that a thesis is defective because it generates an infinite series ....

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Why can't we?  I just measures a piece of floss I cut.  1.0 ft.  That really is how long it is and is a completely accurate measurement of its length- seems to counter your statement.


If you were to zoom in on it , you would see many curves that you didn't see before that add to the length.
The more you zoom in , the more you will find it utterly impossible to measure it with complete accuracy.

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You are claiming something mystical or whatnot


Please show me where i do this.


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What does science "make up"?  To the extent this is implied as exceptional behavior somehow different than the usual conjecture and reasoning/supposition, I don't know what you refer to.



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All my posts in this forum are strictly fictional.
They are derived from an acute mental illness , from which i am forced to lie compulsively.
I have never induced any kind of mind altering substance in my life  and i have no intentions whatsoever of doing anything illegal.
If I have ever suggested such a thing it would have most likely been , due to my personality disorder and i probably do not remember it at all..

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Re: Shepard Tones [Re: jivJaN] * 1
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jivJaN said:
Diploid said:
try to take a large dose

You erroneously assume I haven't.

I think you lack experience all together and could maybe intellectually benefit (if nothing else) from

Tell ya what: when you follow through with the song and dance you did here months ago regarding applying for JREF Challenge, then you'll have the right to lecture me, eh?

i could totally tell that the tone isn't rising nor falling

The tone is falling. This is shown in the image of the spectrum.

You have a hearing deficit. See a doctor.



lolumad ?



More like not in the mood for bullshit.:holyshit:


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"Don't believe everything you think". -Anom.

" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

With much wisdom comes much sorrow,
The more knowledge, the more grief.
Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC

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Re: Shepard Tones [Re: Icelander]
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ok buddy


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All my posts in this forum are strictly fictional.
They are derived from an acute mental illness , from which i am forced to lie compulsively.
I have never induced any kind of mind altering substance in my life  and i have no intentions whatsoever of doing anything illegal.
If I have ever suggested such a thing it would have most likely been , due to my personality disorder and i probably do not remember it at all..

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Re: Shepard Tones [Re: Diploid]
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Quote:
It appears to keep rising (or falling) no matter how long you listen to it.


Really? Name one person who has listened continuously for a year.


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Re: Shepard Tones [Re: Diploid]
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It just sounds like it's falling to me, and I hear more than one tone.

EDIT: I thought the thread was titled "Shepard Tone", NVM.


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Well I try my best to be just like I am, but everybody wants you to be just like them. --  Bob Dylan
fireworks_god said:
It's one thing to simply enjoy a style of life that one enjoys, but it's another thing altogether to refer to another person's choice as "wrong" or to rationalize their behavior as being pathological or resulting from some sort of inadequacy or failing so as to create a sense of superiority or separation as yet another projection of a personal fear or control issue.

Edited by Poid (10/28/10 05:53 PM)

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Re: Shepard Tones [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
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Name one person who has listened continuously for a year.

I've had it playing on my cassette Walkman since 1978. :bananadance:


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1) You can't get married to your spouse who is the same sex as you.
2) You can't have an abortion no matter how much you don't want a child.
3) You can't have a certain plant in your possession or you'll get locked up with a rapist and a murderer.

4) We need a smaller, less-intrusive government.

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