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How sound becomes hearing

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The First Illusion

Our brain essentially edits our auditory experience. Is coming from alter but our brain has an thankfully, our brain knows sounds only come from one direction. In order to function in the real world, our brain makes a guess. It perceives that first wave of sound coming in, and then every subsequent reflection of that sound, it's like saying, ok, i can suppress you. A lot of people aren't even that there are ecos, because our brain is so good at suppressing them.

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