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Attention Capture
Entry #0791
The reason sudden silence grabs you like a loud noise
Sudden silence grabs like noise because the brain treats an unexpected absence of sound as a prediction error, triggering the same orienting response as a loud bang.
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The hidden part
#0791
Silence is not the absence of a signal — it is a prediction error the brain must investigate. The orienting response treats missing sound and unexpected sound identically.