I Saw Through Platonia

I Saw Through Platonia
Running time	2:39
Appears on	Inferno (2026)
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"I Saw Through Platonia" is the eighteenth and final track on Boards of Canada's fifth studio album, Inferno.

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The title "I Saw Through Platonia" most likely refers to the concept by British physicist Julian Barbour called the realm of Platonia, an infinite timeless landscape which contains every possible arrangement and configuration of the universe.^[1]
- Itself influenced by Plato's concept of the world of forms (called "Hyperuranion" in the original Greek).
The melody in this track shares a slight resemblance to the melody in "R35TT B01".
Throughout the track, a beat resembling a heartbeat can be heard, up until the track abruptly ends.
There is 9 seconds of silence at the end of the track, presumably a callback to "Magic Window".

The sound at the end of the track seems to be a carrier wave signal; a carrier wave is a steady high-frequency electromagnetic waveform which serves as a base to "carry" lower-frequency information from a transmitter to a receiver.
The auditory phenomenology common associated with the DMT experience, which shares commonalities with near-death experiences, is often described as "the carrier signal."
As of June 3rd, 2026, it has not been established whether the carrier wave signal at the end of this track contains information, or if so, what.
40 seconds into the track, what seems to be a slowed down recording of the ringing of a railroad crossing bell can be heard. this sound when reversed, actually turns out to be in a palindromic structure, as they sound nearly identical to when the track is played forward.