> Like genetic engineering? I'd call that tampering, not any kind of processing.

Genetic engineering is just one of the forms of the design! Tampering is a very good word, but, more generically "interference" is a how action/reaction works. It is either harmonic and it makes great music, so to speak, or it is interference which then becomes part of the background noise...

> Btw, despite what airlines tell you, you cannot pre-board a plane, and despite what
> cookbooks tell you, you cannot pre-heat an oven.

I fully agree. Everything is done real time...

but, most are so used to "time" that is very hard to think outside of it...I still have to consciously flip time into frequency otherwise I also fall into the same trap...

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