Part 1 of 5 · freeIntroduction
What is the "self"? Philosophers, scientists and artists have been asking the question for centuries. To study it, researchers often use the image of the face, which everyone recognizes at a glance. But the voice matters just as much to the feeling of being oneself.
Hence the paradox. You can watch videos of your friends or family without any trouble. Then comes a voice message you recorded yourself, and you flinch: that voice is not mine. And yet it is. To understand why, you have to follow the path of the sound.
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- 2Speaking and hearing: vibrating air
- 3Hearing yourself through bone
- 4The uncanny valley
- 5One voice, a thousand versions of you
Open-book quiz8 questions whose answers are in the text.
Glossary6 terms explained in a tap.
30 languagesThe same course, from French to Japanese.
