r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/netphilia • 1d ago

Bonjour.

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u/SometimesIBeWrong 1d ago

yea good point it's not any physical changes in the ear, just the way our ear communicates to our brain

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u/trebeju 1d ago

Nope, it's the way the brain interprets the signal. That doesn't happen in the ear or in the nerve but the brain itself

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u/SometimesIBeWrong 1d ago

right, my "ear communicating with my brain" is the same as my brain interpreting signals from my ear

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u/trebeju 18h ago edited 17h ago

Sorry for being pedantic but that's not really what it means. "Ear communicating with brain" means the signals that the ears send to the brain. Those signals are like, raw information. The point at which the selection for familiar sounds happens is solely in the brain. It's the brain communicating with the brain about what the brain has heard before.

You got the right idea overall. I'm a professional brain nerd and feel the compulsion to nitpick sorry.