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Chapter 4, Sections 1-3 of The Clockless Clock

Venkatesh Rao
Jan 02, 2021
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Part of the The Clockless Clock book project.

Close your eyes and attend to your auditory environment for a moment.

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Even if there are no clocks around you at the moment, almost certainly you heard something that has a familial resemblance to the ticking of a clock, producing a rhythmic, but relatively featureless auditory signal of periodicity rough…

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