If a tree falls in a forest does it make a sound?
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The Coleer Implant
The auditory allusion is an unsettling demonstration that our experience of the world doesn't always match up with what's actually happening out there. Anything we perceive as sound is caused by tiny hair cells in the inner ear moving inside some fluid in a spiral aped structure called the coclia. When vibrations in the air set the cocklia fluid and the hair cells giggling, it triggers nerve impulses, tiny spikes of electricity, which travel to the brain. Once something is is in the language of spikes, is in thelanguage of the brain. It depends then on the interpretation of these spikes, of what it is perceived. So am saying that because it's really important. Because one of the most
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