Maybe an interesting hypothetical question: does our "hardware" (inner ear bones etc.) react to outside stimuli that bear some relationship to the physical laws that govern the resonant behavior of the bones themselves? Just an idle thought. I'm in no position to explore this.
Chuck
The auditory ossicles transmit incoming sounds, more or less unmodified, from the eardrum to the cochlea. The cochlea is lined with hair cells of different sizes, neatly lined up in size order. Hair cells of different sizes vibrate in response to different frequencies. When a cell is triggered, it sends an impulse up the auditory branch of the VIII cranial nerve, which impulse is eventually processed by the brain. Everything we have been arguing about here has to do with what the brain does--the rest is simple physics.
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