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Making Sense: How sound becomes hearing

Unexplainable

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The Unknowns of Sound

New series from unexplainable about the weird, perplexing, enormous unknowns of our senses. We're starting by trying to make some sense of sound - what are we actually hearing when we're hearing? How much of it is the real world, and how much is constructed in our brain? All knowledge must come through the senses: all that we perceive and all the awareness of our daily existence. It's like a domino effect moving through space... Sound is rapid changes in air pressure that happen when something is vibrating.

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