On subvocalization, the voice in your head, and the music of sentences.

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I think I cracked the code. Not to Morton Feldman’s, For Philip Guston—I don't know if there's a code to be cracked there. It’s all timeless and primordial, liminal and alien. Listening, I imagined myself in a petri dish, germinating, widening, pre-conscious and pre-linguistic, waiting to hear the right phrase and only then would I explode into sentience. Stuck in the petri dish, scientists in lab coats sticking their noses in my “face,” measuring me, whispering behind my bac