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I had a very interesting and enlightening conversation with a local officer where he brought up the differences between gunfire and the pop of an engine: so I figured I'd compile a few things here;
The following video helps clarify the colloquialism that such distortions or misconceptions happen "all the time".
Can you tell the difference between gunshots and fireworks? - YouTube
Opening up, it's important to start with some metaphysics, science, and psychology - basic factors about interpreting sound:
The general shape of the human ear is synonymous to the shape of an embryo within the first trimester. The last process of hearing begins in the auditory nerve, after low pitches and high pitches are filtered by two sets of hairs on either end of the cochlea. When the auditory nerve translates the sound, the brain is "hearing" the information. The obvious result for those whose hearing is in tact is either a conscious, unconscious, or even subconscious registering or even reification of a sound that travels through air waves in the present moment. Another way of looking at it, is you don't hear anything. You brain does that part.
The first step in "hearing" is to be attentive to the sound. This doesn't require being mindful necessarily. It has a lot do with how a person is brought up. Through week 4-16, hearing is developed as the inner ear begins to take form {transcription factor spatiotemporal gradient confirmed this}. The snail shaped cochlea (Greek for snail) has 2.75 turns or even up to 3 turns once it is developed, which could be a contributing factor in better hearing. Since the development of hearing begins in the womb, it could be argued that the psychological effects of hearing are already in development at this point. Ever noticed a man happily embracing the belly of the pregnant mother, his eyes almost glowing as if he stares deeply like he's peering into the belly in order to see the child? Parents usually take great care as the baby develops, due mostly to the mother's sensitivities, of course, as she starts to undergo considerable hormone changes and effectively undergoes the emotional process of preparing for childbirth.
By the time a baby is born it has already gone through a number of experiences that he or she is about to learn about and explore. In the time the child has learned to crawl, it is uniquely processing the ability to translate information between left and right. And when the first word is uttered, the reactions between mom and dad are assured that confidence in language is plausible. By the time a bond has been made between parents and child that their baby is now on it's way to communicating, a soft sigh of relief that the parents have prepared for the indoctrinating truth, many aspirations follow - but within all that time, across various parts of the world, people in distant neighborhoods and cities will have fallen victim to gunfire, celebrated something with fireworks, and old cars have given off the proverbial cliché, almost reminiscent of a different time, "pop" sound they're notorious for as they travel through these many distant places.
Between the time it takes to learn these things and going off to college, you have probably heard so many sounds that you might be thinking about Carnegie Hall before thoughts of marriage rolls along. Between all these aspirations and then some are also the some-suches and the muses that you've no doubt sorted in order to put on a good shirt and walk through the door after a long- albeit hotter than usual- summer and begin applying yourself to what you're finally good at.
You hear the teachers and professors as you sit down or stand up to do experiments with chemistry sets that might boil inside of various-sized glass instruments that bubble and pop after you light the burner with a crispy "frrm" of a match or grind-and-scratch of a striker. Needless to say, when you come out of school, whether it be high school of college, it's well established by that point that differentiating between sounds has aided your survival.
However, statistics from just about any source can tell you that misinformation carried over the phone to dispatch is likely not what the description is going to entail. By the time a cop arrives on the scene, unless it's not a 911 call, A verbal description is literally all they have to go on, using clues that they've studied the in-and-outs of with their eyes. As a matter of fact, most of the bandwidth of these two senses is significantly more impacting on our conscious filtering, it goes without say but is often said that we connect quite a lot of dots by combining the two elements of focus together as one.
While some studies have suggested that it's impossible, improbable or unlikely that we ever focus on more than one sense at a time, it's perhaps interesting to note that the reason has a lot to do with personal growth. For those who meditate this can be described as personal preference and those who are too busy and overworked to meditate could describe senses more like extraneous. Whether annoying or difficult to interpret the motivations that go into interpreting a sound can either become more unconscious or lead to delusions, respectively. With the latter, like the typical idiom of hearing a sound in the night that sets your thoughts to wonder about it until an almost lifelike scenario forms in mind and the forms become imagery to help reason out "whatever the noise was", a delusion like that could be the cause of a thought form, but with a trained mind and a fair bit of focus, instead of a delusional pattern, it could be a clever skill to be able to easily distinguish the difference between an unimportant sound and one that causes more heads to raise.
So when it occurs in statistics that people end up calling the emergency numbers far too often, mistaking gunfire for something else, what exactly is the solution? Well, the important thing is not to beat yourself up over it, mostly. Intervals of uncertainty are well known causes of a busy mind. Wu Wei can actually help encourage people to think and do more with their unconscious, providing the notion that their visage -as they skillfully work a job- shows that they are simply ignoring things while being perfectly mindful.
It is possible for that very reason, people who seem unaware are often presenting the wrong thing. Wu Wei builds a strong confidence that we can be mindful beyond the reaches of what is going on in a perfectly still moment. It waves beyond the visual and dimensional barriers beyond the distant woods of your obvious company. This almost seems to imply that we can apply far more precious time to the people and things around us even if by simply connecting to things. Could this mean instructors and followers of Wu Wei are guided by the universe and that the universe provides most of the energy that leads to them mastering things? If the universe is guiding you, are you listening to it?
The following video helps clarify the colloquialism that such distortions or misconceptions happen "all the time".
Can you tell the difference between gunshots and fireworks? - YouTube
Opening up, it's important to start with some metaphysics, science, and psychology - basic factors about interpreting sound:
The general shape of the human ear is synonymous to the shape of an embryo within the first trimester. The last process of hearing begins in the auditory nerve, after low pitches and high pitches are filtered by two sets of hairs on either end of the cochlea. When the auditory nerve translates the sound, the brain is "hearing" the information. The obvious result for those whose hearing is in tact is either a conscious, unconscious, or even subconscious registering or even reification of a sound that travels through air waves in the present moment. Another way of looking at it, is you don't hear anything. You brain does that part.
The first step in "hearing" is to be attentive to the sound. This doesn't require being mindful necessarily. It has a lot do with how a person is brought up. Through week 4-16, hearing is developed as the inner ear begins to take form {transcription factor spatiotemporal gradient confirmed this}. The snail shaped cochlea (Greek for snail) has 2.75 turns or even up to 3 turns once it is developed, which could be a contributing factor in better hearing. Since the development of hearing begins in the womb, it could be argued that the psychological effects of hearing are already in development at this point. Ever noticed a man happily embracing the belly of the pregnant mother, his eyes almost glowing as if he stares deeply like he's peering into the belly in order to see the child? Parents usually take great care as the baby develops, due mostly to the mother's sensitivities, of course, as she starts to undergo considerable hormone changes and effectively undergoes the emotional process of preparing for childbirth.
By the time a baby is born it has already gone through a number of experiences that he or she is about to learn about and explore. In the time the child has learned to crawl, it is uniquely processing the ability to translate information between left and right. And when the first word is uttered, the reactions between mom and dad are assured that confidence in language is plausible. By the time a bond has been made between parents and child that their baby is now on it's way to communicating, a soft sigh of relief that the parents have prepared for the indoctrinating truth, many aspirations follow - but within all that time, across various parts of the world, people in distant neighborhoods and cities will have fallen victim to gunfire, celebrated something with fireworks, and old cars have given off the proverbial cliché, almost reminiscent of a different time, "pop" sound they're notorious for as they travel through these many distant places.
Between the time it takes to learn these things and going off to college, you have probably heard so many sounds that you might be thinking about Carnegie Hall before thoughts of marriage rolls along. Between all these aspirations and then some are also the some-suches and the muses that you've no doubt sorted in order to put on a good shirt and walk through the door after a long- albeit hotter than usual- summer and begin applying yourself to what you're finally good at.
You hear the teachers and professors as you sit down or stand up to do experiments with chemistry sets that might boil inside of various-sized glass instruments that bubble and pop after you light the burner with a crispy "frrm" of a match or grind-and-scratch of a striker. Needless to say, when you come out of school, whether it be high school of college, it's well established by that point that differentiating between sounds has aided your survival.
However, statistics from just about any source can tell you that misinformation carried over the phone to dispatch is likely not what the description is going to entail. By the time a cop arrives on the scene, unless it's not a 911 call, A verbal description is literally all they have to go on, using clues that they've studied the in-and-outs of with their eyes. As a matter of fact, most of the bandwidth of these two senses is significantly more impacting on our conscious filtering, it goes without say but is often said that we connect quite a lot of dots by combining the two elements of focus together as one.
While some studies have suggested that it's impossible, improbable or unlikely that we ever focus on more than one sense at a time, it's perhaps interesting to note that the reason has a lot to do with personal growth. For those who meditate this can be described as personal preference and those who are too busy and overworked to meditate could describe senses more like extraneous. Whether annoying or difficult to interpret the motivations that go into interpreting a sound can either become more unconscious or lead to delusions, respectively. With the latter, like the typical idiom of hearing a sound in the night that sets your thoughts to wonder about it until an almost lifelike scenario forms in mind and the forms become imagery to help reason out "whatever the noise was", a delusion like that could be the cause of a thought form, but with a trained mind and a fair bit of focus, instead of a delusional pattern, it could be a clever skill to be able to easily distinguish the difference between an unimportant sound and one that causes more heads to raise.
So when it occurs in statistics that people end up calling the emergency numbers far too often, mistaking gunfire for something else, what exactly is the solution? Well, the important thing is not to beat yourself up over it, mostly. Intervals of uncertainty are well known causes of a busy mind. Wu Wei can actually help encourage people to think and do more with their unconscious, providing the notion that their visage -as they skillfully work a job- shows that they are simply ignoring things while being perfectly mindful.
It is possible for that very reason, people who seem unaware are often presenting the wrong thing. Wu Wei builds a strong confidence that we can be mindful beyond the reaches of what is going on in a perfectly still moment. It waves beyond the visual and dimensional barriers beyond the distant woods of your obvious company. This almost seems to imply that we can apply far more precious time to the people and things around us even if by simply connecting to things. Could this mean instructors and followers of Wu Wei are guided by the universe and that the universe provides most of the energy that leads to them mastering things? If the universe is guiding you, are you listening to it?