• Etterra@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    On the plus side, if we evolved on Planet Sunblaster then our hearing would have evolved to either dial down the volume or filter it out completely.

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      3 months ago

      I mean we hear the sound of our blood rushing through the veins of our ears at all times, but our brain filters it out. That the “sound of the ocean” you hear when listening into a conch, it just amplifies the bloodwaves. Other fun stuff our brain does: Our eyes are actually perceiving the world upside down and with a blind spot right in the middle.

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      3 months ago

      Or perhaps we’d use the reflected soundwaves to navigate with echolocation much like we use reflected light waves to see.