You hear in digital, silly!
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I hear digital voices in my head. Can you hear them too?? I'll pluck one of my ear hairs out and give it to you so you can hear what I hear. It sounds like marshmallows and fingernails on a chalkboard....in stereo!
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Interesting thought, but no.
There are no numbers (digits, 0s and 1s) being transmitted to your ears or in your head.
You may have better luck thinking of it as an anaolgue signal. -
Any audio signal transmitted, be it digital or analog at source, will always be just a cluster of vibrations from said source to the ear of the translator.
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Interesting thought, but no.
There are no numbers (digits, 0s and 1s) being transmitted to your ears or in your head.
In an electrical sense there are no "numbers" being transmitted in any digital signal, it's simply how we choose to interpret digital signals. A digit of "1" means "on" and a digit of "0" means "off". It's not like the numbers zero and one float across the wire like a Sesame Street cartoon
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Some people actually do here in color and in tastes...it's called synesthesia
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Interesting thought, but no.
There are no numbers (digits, 0s and 1s) being transmitted to your ears or in your head.
You may have better luck thinking of it as an anaolgue signal.
It's easier to think of it as analog, but the hairs in your ears don't say, "well i hear a 80hz signal" and then send 80hz information to the brain. But rather, they send an electrical signal down dendrites and axons. Eventually, ions (transmitters) will jump across the synaptic clefts in synapses and continue this process until the electrical signals reach the correct centers in the brain. Since the amount of transmitters is discrete, this means that the signal is discrete, not continuous.
Similarly to how your eyes work. There are only X amount of rods and cones. And hence they cannot generate an infinite resolution. There is a limit.
Although, there are probably so many specialized cells in your eyes and ears, that you may consider the images and sounds you hear to be analog for practical purposes.
For simplicity sake, I left out A LOT of information to how cell signaling works. -
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Do any of you think altitude could play a part in how we hear things as well? what I mean is could my rig sound completely different? say in Florida?
But then again if it sounds different it may not be the altitude it could be the electrical grid being feed to my rig in florida.
I would assume that some electrical grids are better in some parts of our country.
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It's not really an electrical signal like in a wire. The electrical signals are a result of the cellular membranes depolarizing. When a neuron depolarizes neurotransmitters are released into the synapse between it and another neuron which opens chemically gated protein channels in the membrane of neuron #2 allowing for an influx of positive ions and consequently causing the second neuron to depolarize; passing along the message.
You're right that there's no actual message being transmitted other than in an on or off fashion. Our brain sorts out the information and decides what we should feel based on the type of neuron firing, it's position in your body, the amplitude of depolarization and the frequency. -
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It's easier to think of it as analog, but the hairs in your ears don't say, "well i hear a 80hz signal" and then send 80hz information to the brain. But rather, they send an electrical signal down dendrites and axons. Eventually, ions (transmitters) will jump across the synaptic clefts in synapses and continue this process until the electrical signals reach the correct centers in the brain. Since the amount of transmitters is discrete, this means that the signal is discrete, not continuous.
Similarly to how your eyes work. There are only X amount of rods and cones. And hence they cannot generate an infinite resolution. There is a limit.
Although, there are probably so many specialized cells in your eyes and ears, that you may consider the images and sounds you hear to be analog for practical purposes.
For simplicity sake, I left out A LOT of information to how cell signaling works.
Point taken, but digital as we know it or as used in this context implies binary. In reality it would be more like the Fibonacci sequence.
