So you’re saying stimulation is being misrepresented as engagement; then in the next paragraph says, “reading is magnitudes more engaging” to support your argument about stimulation? Or is my cognitively addled brain misreading your comment?

Instead of name-calling, which is usually a sign someone has no good argument, I’ll just drop a link to this paper that used fMRI to scan the brain when presented with information in either audio or written form.

although the representation of semantic information in the human brain is quite complex, the semantic representations evoked by listening versus reading are almost identical.

Thank you for engaging like a mature adult.

EDIT: Or this one that shows that both activities simply activate different parts of the brain. And I would argue that brain activation is stimulation. Unless you’d like to present an alternative definition for stimulation?