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drmabuce wrote:
> The point he always stresses is biology's affinity for
> phase-discrimination in perception. That is, nature overwhelmingly
> favors two sensor structures that differ in either vantage-point or type
> and the neural structures they stimulate process the DIFFERENCE between
> them to derive complex information. 

From an evolutionary standpoint, one key bit of complex information if
being able to tell whether a sound is coming towards us, or going away. 
As my favorite guitarist puts it, "remember that the human ear and brain
have amazing powers of phase discrimination. Those folks who didn't were
all eaten by bears 15,000 years ago".

cheers,
Paul
-- 
Amazing thing, the brain.  I wonder what became of mine?