This is closer to reality. As long as we’re talking about it. All of that cilia of the ear and how the neurons transfer energy is SO silly and old school. Silly cilia! Auditory specialists and neuroscientists are long, long way from Tipperary. In reality the brain acts like a transceiver. A transceiver that’s tuned to many frequencies not just audio frequencies and not only conscious information.
From my website, “How the Clever Little Clock Works.” (Excerpt)
Chronological Memory
Our internal clock controls how memories are stored and retrieved. If we wish to reminisce about a favorite book or movie we can recall the highlights fairly easily, and if we put our minds to it we can remember scenes from movies in remarkable detail - scenes many hundreds of frames or more in length. A movie’s images and sounds are "videotaped" by our eye and brain, then stored in memory chronologically. Furthermore, the movie’s images are integrated, synchronized with the movie’s soundtrack in memory. If our memory was not chronological we wouldn’t be able to recall high-density, multiple-frame scenes from movies and replay them in our mind’s eye. The brain even has a Scene Selection feature similar to a DVD player’s so we can consciously select specific scenes from a movie and replay them in our mind’s eye like, say, Remember Sammy Jankis or Memories can be Distorted from Memento.
Our internal clock is always running, whether we’re conscious of it or not. Sometimes we awake just before the alarm clock goes off because we know it’s time to get up. All the things we see and hear and do are time-stamped with Present Time coordinates. Thus, the next day, the following week or ten years later we’re able to associate specific times in the past with our experiences. "What were you doing last Tuesday evening?" "Let’s see, at 8 O’clock I was watching Total Recall. At 9 O’clock I watched Altered States."
So, whether we’re aware of it or not, we maintain a continuous record of events, sounds, words and images, including time of occurrence. We can sing a song from memory or play a musical instrument. With a little effort we can remember passages from books and movies like Roy Batty’s death speech in Blade Runner, "I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All these moments ...will be lost... in time... like tears... in rain. ...Time to die."
Time is Relative
The Clever Little Clock addresses an esoteric but fundamental problem that occurs when playing an LP, CD, DVD or any other audio or video media. This problem also occurs when watching taped programs on television or listening to recorded programming on the radio in your car or at home. In all of those cases the observer is confronted - subconsciously - by time coordinates that are different from the Present Time coordinates he’s been using his entire life to time-stamp sensory information. What are these interfering time coordinates, where do they come from and why are they a problem?
The alien time coordinates are contained in the recording (or videotape). The time coordinates (of what was then Present Time) of the recorded performance, millisecond by millisecond, are captured inadvertently along with the acoustic information. When a recording is played, the time coordinates from the recording session (which are now Past Time coordinates) are reproduced by the speakers along with the acoustic signals of the recorded event. Those Past Time signals become entangled, integrated in the listener’s mind with Present Time signals. Because the listener is accustomed to using Present Time signals to synchronize his chronological memory, he subconsciously perceives the confusing, interloping Past Time signals as a threat. This perceived threat produces the fight-or-flight response, which in turn degrades his sensory capabilities. The reason that live television broadcasts, like the Superbowl and the 2010 Olympics, are generally observed to have superior audio and video compared to taped broadcasts is that they don’t contain Past Time signals, only Present Time ones.
The time coordinates on the recording are associated with the 4-dimensional spacetime coordinate system (x, y, z, t), where t ranges between the start time and end time of the recording session. While you could say that t0 of the spacetime coordinate system marks the first instant of the Big Bang, it’s the relative difference between Past Time and Present Time that’s important, not the difference between t0 and Past Time or Present Time.
From my website, “How the Clever Little Clock Works.” (Excerpt)
Chronological Memory
Our internal clock controls how memories are stored and retrieved. If we wish to reminisce about a favorite book or movie we can recall the highlights fairly easily, and if we put our minds to it we can remember scenes from movies in remarkable detail - scenes many hundreds of frames or more in length. A movie’s images and sounds are "videotaped" by our eye and brain, then stored in memory chronologically. Furthermore, the movie’s images are integrated, synchronized with the movie’s soundtrack in memory. If our memory was not chronological we wouldn’t be able to recall high-density, multiple-frame scenes from movies and replay them in our mind’s eye. The brain even has a Scene Selection feature similar to a DVD player’s so we can consciously select specific scenes from a movie and replay them in our mind’s eye like, say, Remember Sammy Jankis or Memories can be Distorted from Memento.
Our internal clock is always running, whether we’re conscious of it or not. Sometimes we awake just before the alarm clock goes off because we know it’s time to get up. All the things we see and hear and do are time-stamped with Present Time coordinates. Thus, the next day, the following week or ten years later we’re able to associate specific times in the past with our experiences. "What were you doing last Tuesday evening?" "Let’s see, at 8 O’clock I was watching Total Recall. At 9 O’clock I watched Altered States."
So, whether we’re aware of it or not, we maintain a continuous record of events, sounds, words and images, including time of occurrence. We can sing a song from memory or play a musical instrument. With a little effort we can remember passages from books and movies like Roy Batty’s death speech in Blade Runner, "I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All these moments ...will be lost... in time... like tears... in rain. ...Time to die."
Time is Relative
The Clever Little Clock addresses an esoteric but fundamental problem that occurs when playing an LP, CD, DVD or any other audio or video media. This problem also occurs when watching taped programs on television or listening to recorded programming on the radio in your car or at home. In all of those cases the observer is confronted - subconsciously - by time coordinates that are different from the Present Time coordinates he’s been using his entire life to time-stamp sensory information. What are these interfering time coordinates, where do they come from and why are they a problem?
The alien time coordinates are contained in the recording (or videotape). The time coordinates (of what was then Present Time) of the recorded performance, millisecond by millisecond, are captured inadvertently along with the acoustic information. When a recording is played, the time coordinates from the recording session (which are now Past Time coordinates) are reproduced by the speakers along with the acoustic signals of the recorded event. Those Past Time signals become entangled, integrated in the listener’s mind with Present Time signals. Because the listener is accustomed to using Present Time signals to synchronize his chronological memory, he subconsciously perceives the confusing, interloping Past Time signals as a threat. This perceived threat produces the fight-or-flight response, which in turn degrades his sensory capabilities. The reason that live television broadcasts, like the Superbowl and the 2010 Olympics, are generally observed to have superior audio and video compared to taped broadcasts is that they don’t contain Past Time signals, only Present Time ones.
The time coordinates on the recording are associated with the 4-dimensional spacetime coordinate system (x, y, z, t), where t ranges between the start time and end time of the recording session. While you could say that t0 of the spacetime coordinate system marks the first instant of the Big Bang, it’s the relative difference between Past Time and Present Time that’s important, not the difference between t0 and Past Time or Present Time.