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This is a truly intriguing hypothesis—one that elegantly bridges ecology, acoustics, and systems theory. The idea that ecosystems don’t just emit sound but potentially encode memory and coordination within those soundscapes challenges some fundamental assumptions about how we perceive nature. If sound acts as a kind of environmental scaffolding or distributed neural net, then its loss could genuinely represent not just silence, but ecological amnesia. Your thought experiment about applying healthy soundscapes to a desert or failing forest—essentially reintroducing an “acoustic memory”—feels like a novel form of environmental regeneration, not unlike a sonic catalyst for rewilding.

That said, I’d be very interested to know how you envision testing or confirming this. Would you begin with controlled acoustic enclosures to monitor how reintroduced sound patterns affect plant growth, fungal activity, or pollinator behavior? And how would you differentiate between correlation and causation in such a complex system? This idea sits at the intersection of so many disciplines—AI, bioacoustics, behavioral ecology—that it seems ripe for collaborative experimentation. If there’s a plan for developing experimental protocols or even small-scale field pilots, I’d love to hear how you see those unfolding.

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