Forgive me. As usual I overstated the case. But the cochlea IS a piece of meat, not a gang of oscillators. In graduate school (back in the 19 century) I was taught that one end of cochlea was following the wave while the other was using many neurons to follow the wave, Nobody reminded us that the two ends were attached to one another and bathed in the same fluid encapsulated in a spiral shaped vessel.
Mike where are you when I need you? Nick Nick Thompson [email protected] https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ -----Original Message----- From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of jon zingale Sent: Sunday, February 7, 2021 12:28 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [FRIAM] what complexity science says ... I am not sure it fair to say *entirely falsifies how the cochlea works*. In some sense, we perform *at least* a Fourier transform, even if it isn't computed completely at the cochlea. We, and especially musicians, find it more natural to speak about sound in terms of spectra (timbre and pitch, say) than changes in pressure. While I can understand how replacing the cochlea (an embodied architectural organ) with a device that performs transforms can fail, by the time we experience pressure as sound, we have spectra. -- Sent from: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/
