[FRIAM] what complexity science says ...

[thompnickson2 at gmail.com]

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
ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com
https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/

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From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of jon zingale
Sent: Sunday, February 7, 2021 12:28 PM
To: friam at redfish.com
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.



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