It’s academic indeed…I just have to close my circle of logic
Being able to compare sound to experience with different hearing ability (two different persons) is agreed anyway. The speciality is the same person comparing sound with hearing loss to experience without loss and having the same sound inside brain, that was tricky.
I’m not completely through how someone who just heard a whistle before his hearing loss should be able to correctly evaluate a cymbal after his loss (just because he heard another sound of the same frequency band before), but I leave it as it is now Could be this and that…
I’m not completely through how someone who just heard a whistle before his hearing loss should be able to correctly evaluate a cymbal after his loss (just because he heard another sound of the same frequency band before), but I leave it as it is now Could be this and that…
I didn’t mean to imply that anything in the frequency range is enough to “hear” any other thing same frequency range. I was putting forth the possibility that as long as the closest experience in the past to the real thing is similar enough the difference is small enough to not be practically a problem. e.g. the brain will “bridge over” missing info the best it can and as long as that spot isn’t the deciding factor in a decision it’s good enough. That’s just the way the brain works anyway - if the approximated extrapolation turns out to be critical we naturally endeavor to experience the experience again and concentrate on the troubling spot hoping to gain some confidence/insight/understanding. In the case of a cymbal I suspect that having experienced any other small enough/thin enough metallic thing being struck would provide a good enough approximation for the missing info. We see things even in noise (e.g. a missing TV station, or Jesus’s face in a tortilla), this shows how hard the brain tries to match current experience with older experience. We never see something entirely new in noise, we something similar to something we saw in the past (i.e. we see the face of Jesus that we are familiar with not his real face )
Yes, we desire to find patterns. And script memory is additionally very powerful.
In this sense, at the very least, Plato was certainly correct. There is an absolute form upon which we rely. For example, we know what a piano sounds like and identify and listen to all piano sounds in light of this concept of piano.
I am 61. I still can hear just fine and love the sound of good electronics. However, as I get older, I find myself rethinking upgrading from an already wonderful system to something new, primarily because our financial advisor has warned us to get serious about investing in our retirement…
Could be this and that… 
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