On Sat, Jul 15, 2023 at 01:00:53PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: > Well, the philosophical question might possibly be phrased as "if no > tree falls down in a forest and there is someone around to hear it, does > it make a sound?" That again is word games, it just depends on how you define 'sound'. > But this makes more sense as a neurophysiological question, namely how > the hearing adapts to total silence, similarly to how vision adaption in > total darkness is a neurophysiological question. In this case adaptation doesn't play any role, it's all about how a sequence (in time) of events is perceived. Humans are quite bad at making 'objective' measurements of such things. This is even more evident when visual and auditory events are mixed and the subject has to find out the time relation between those. Re. total silence: if you are in a completely soundproof room you will start hearing your heartbeat and the blood flowing in your ears after some time. Most people can't handle this for long and start screaming 'let me out'. Those that remain inside longer usually have a completely wrong idea of how long they were in. -- FA _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list -- linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to linux-audio-user-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
