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Posted by real_jj on April 27, 2006 at 15:25:54

In Reply to: I think the reality of the matter is... posted by Wellfed on April 26, 2006 at 17:00:11:

The human auditory system is tuned very nicely to detect differences, as many as it can, etc, which means quite directly (since detection is probabilistic) that it also detects a whole lot of changes and differences that do not exist.

It's not a delusion, or a failure, or anything of that sort, it's how the wetware (cochlea, organ of corti, etc) works.

No matter how often people argue DBT's don't work, they are one of the few tools (the others of which are blinded in some fashion or other) that actually allows us to determine when the perceptual system is fooling us and when it's not. Both to some probability, of course, there is never "certainty".

I don't really appreciate the rancor, but it seems to me that a couple of people have appointed themselves the guardians of quackery, and try to dismiss anyone who provides a way to test the various kinds of mods that appear.

It would seem to me, since the cable asylum bans discussions that run counter to purely subjective accounts, that there ought to be a similar refuge for those of us who understand just how fallable they are.

Presently, the hatred fostered by the likes of Mkuller, bjh, cheap_jack, and some others makes reasoned discussion pretty much impossible if the question of "what can you hear" comes up.

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