So true, Johnnie. The transcript is not the conversation. This is exemplified in your video transcript, too. We experience a video/audio monologue (if we listen engagingly) in a similar way to how we experience what others say in a conversation or meeting, that is, as dialogic moments. The transcript flattens what’s said, even if the speaker does the extra work of articulating their emotion in matching words. And the transcript cannot capture the listener/watcher’s responsive thoughts and emotions.
You suggest that if we aren’t having emotional responses in meetings, the life has gone out of the conversation. Or is it that our emotional response of dread or anxiety takes us out presence, so that we lower our ability to hear the other voices holistically. That is, our dread or anxiety flattens our hearing with a kind of band pass* filter that lets us hear the words, but not the lows and highs. At the same time we parse our own utterances in a similar way, in the mistaken belief that we can pare things back to a context free message that is ‘mere content’.
*(in audio and other signal processing) a combination low pass and high pass filter that restricts what frequencies are received to a specified band, cutting the lows and highs.
So true, Johnnie. The transcript is not the conversation. This is exemplified in your video transcript, too. We experience a video/audio monologue (if we listen engagingly) in a similar way to how we experience what others say in a conversation or meeting, that is, as dialogic moments. The transcript flattens what’s said, even if the speaker does the extra work of articulating their emotion in matching words. And the transcript cannot capture the listener/watcher’s responsive thoughts and emotions.
You suggest that if we aren’t having emotional responses in meetings, the life has gone out of the conversation. Or is it that our emotional response of dread or anxiety takes us out presence, so that we lower our ability to hear the other voices holistically. That is, our dread or anxiety flattens our hearing with a kind of band pass* filter that lets us hear the words, but not the lows and highs. At the same time we parse our own utterances in a similar way, in the mistaken belief that we can pare things back to a context free message that is ‘mere content’.
*(in audio and other signal processing) a combination low pass and high pass filter that restricts what frequencies are received to a specified band, cutting the lows and highs.