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Similar things happen with vision BTW. When you start looking into it, what our eyes and ears and the connected parts of the brain actually do is pretty crazy.

Similar things happen with vision BTW. When you start looking into it, what our eyes and ears and the connected parts of the brain actually do is pretty crazy. Our sensory systems are eventually consistent, and there are glitches, but amazingly it all mostly works.

codeulike 4y ago
When you start looking into it
- notacoward 4y ago
  Ha! I wish I could say that was intentional. Thanks for pointing it out.
ChrisClark 4y ago
I think it could be almost described as a full on 3D rendering engine, we are getting the raw data from outside ourselves, but what we see is completely built up inside our own minds. Does that make sense?
- tornato7 4y ago
  I like that. We are always processing information in 3D, not just vision but you can imagine hearing someone behind you and your brain immediately places them in 3D space based on your prior knowledge of your surroundings. It's amazing sensor fusion because you can see/hear/smell/touch something all at the same time and associate it correctly with one object.
- kridsdale2 4y ago
  It's much much more like our new AI image generators than a physical simulation of light and volume with mathematical precision. Imagination is a "good enough" fluctuation of seemingly random stimulation of neurons that we're able to judge as being quite approximate to the same stimulation pattern that we get from our physical sensors. Thinking about a scene or music and "hearing it" is like a unit test.
- notakio 4y ago
  It has been illuminating for me over the past few weeks to have lost hearing in my right ear as a result of a lingering sinus infection; I understood that identifying the direction a sound might come from would be difficult with only one ear, but I had no idea how crucial it was for speech comprehension, particularly when any other noise is also present. I've found that I can barely even discern that speech is present within a mix of noises, much less am I able to comprehend the speech until such time as I can reduce the other noises to a minimal level, and directionally point my ear at the source of said speech. Conference calls were quite a delight there for a while.
w_for_wumbo 4y ago
Essentially our hardware isn't perfect, and there's delays so the software has a bunch of patches and workarounds to interpolate what it believes is occurring, which happens to be right a lot of the time. Normally only with illusions where this reality is confronted to us.

codeulike 4y ago

When you start looking into it

notacoward 4y ago
Ha! I wish I could say that was intentional. Thanks for pointing it out.

ChrisClark 4y ago

I think it could be almost described as a full on 3D rendering engine, we are getting the raw data from outside ourselves, but what we see is completely built up inside our own minds. Does that make sense?

tornato7 4y ago
I like that. We are always processing information in 3D, not just vision but you can imagine hearing someone behind you and your brain immediately places them in 3D space based on your prior knowledge of your surroundings. It's amazing sensor fusion because you can see/hear/smell/touch something all at the same time and associate it correctly with one object.
kridsdale2 4y ago
It's much much more like our new AI image generators than a physical simulation of light and volume with mathematical precision. Imagination is a "good enough" fluctuation of seemingly random stimulation of neurons that we're able to judge as being quite approximate to the same stimulation pattern that we get from our physical sensors. Thinking about a scene or music and "hearing it" is like a unit test.
notakio 4y ago
It has been illuminating for me over the past few weeks to have lost hearing in my right ear as a result of a lingering sinus infection; I understood that identifying the direction a sound might come from would be difficult with only one ear, but I had no idea how crucial it was for speech comprehension, particularly when any other noise is also present. I've found that I can barely even discern that speech is present within a mix of noises, much less am I able to comprehend the speech until such time as I can reduce the other noises to a minimal level, and directionally point my ear at the source of said speech. Conference calls were quite a delight there for a while.

w_for_wumbo 4y ago

Essentially our hardware isn't perfect, and there's delays so the software has a bunch of patches and workarounds to interpolate what it believes is occurring, which happens to be right a lot of the time. Normally only with illusions where this reality is confronted to us.