Dang, Pooker, you're the only person aside from my own self I have heard address the subject of cognitive dissonance in a coon's age. (How much cognitive dssonance is therte in a coon's age?).

Anyway, it could well be that they have to apply a chaos filter sorta algorithm on the raw data to map it to structured tonality, I dunno. The story doesn't go into the sampling rate of the wave-form analysis at all. Typical Wired high level smarty-pants report, just right for the likes of us!

As for the control group -- LOL! -- I can think of a few dead-in-the-'ead volunteers, the sort who don't need help getting to sleep because its permanent. But I haven't been asked for a list.

You realize this puts only a few technological evolutionary steps away from WANs using wireless inductance to generate different musical structures as people pass by, alerting those around to the presence of terrorists, bores, obsessives, schizophrenics (barbershop output for the happily schizoid, and bad rap for the disturbed ones), gossips (perhaps something like the Bumblebee Concerto) and busybodies (theme music from the Pink Panther). LOL!! The halls will be alive with the sound of music!!

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