[QUOTE=sun surfer;3606082In fact, thinking over it, I don't believe reading with eyes is any more active than reading/listening with ears.[/QUOTE]
It might be considered more active since the visual reader has more direct control over the pace. That's a bit tenuous but it's something.
As for the fact that a reader's eyes are moving making it active, that kind of assumes that if he's not reading his eyes stop moving. I will concede that reading is more active than being dead.
Can we infer from this that the dead do read? Oh god I hope so!
Barry