How Science Got Sound Wrong

Our eyes can see to 324 megapixels. The best digital photography can have 20 megapixel resolution. It wouldn't be a far guess that we not only hear with our ears but with our brains and bodies as well. Just because someone can't hear it doesn't mean the other person can't. The human hearing system may be more sensitive that science can measure

Some people see without eyes....

But the main point is not the ears potential technical resolutive power " per se" but how the sound is perceived and reconstructed by the sensing dynamical " brain-body", and how the" body-brain" react to the sound and help to his perception-construction...

It is a dynamical process where the sound is not a passive object to be perceived but a living phenomenon to be interpretated and inserted in a recreation process, this is a continuous action- reaction between the brain-body-environment, a tripartite process better understood via semiotics...

We can’t see 324 megapixels ... Not even close. We can see about 7 megapixels at most at a single time in our foveal vision. That 324 is an erroneous interpretation of if we scanned our eyes over a field of view but out brains do not really work that way. We have 120 million rods but they are bundled so the resolution is not great and they easily saturate. We have approx 7 million cones which is where our high res viewing comes from.

"If you could hear what I’ve heard with my ears."

I am afraid they would double the dose.

Musical sounds for example are like words and numbers a tough nuts to crack if someone think that these are ready made nuts coming from a tree without seeing the growing dynamical potential which constitute them...Which comes first the egg or the hen?


Sounds are not understood being only object external to a subject, no more than rainbows are understood being only an  external object with a pot of gold at the end...These are phenomenon, this is a philosophical useful concept, not reducible to the concept of object...

One of the greatest conductor and maestro of the last century, is a mathematician by formation, Ernest Ansermet, and he wrote a book of 1 thousand two hundred pages about musical sound perception...There is explained the irreducible depth of the perception-creation of musical sound that transcend the acoustical phenomenon because the body-consciousness is implicated....Good read...