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2025

On Scrupulosity

Dear fellow spiritual traveler,

You made a wrong turn along the way. Maybe the map was upside down. You find yourself alone in a wilderness... that is, aside from hidden pits that make you ever vigilant; aside from tangling vines that impede your progress; aside from lonesome howling winds; and aside from the silence – the absence of the only voice you really want to hear. There is a light at the distant horizon, and you must reach it ... or maybe it was a mirage. – Why, oh why, couldn't you have been one of those crystal rubbing hippies? At least they act like they've figured it out. At least they seem... at peace?

The Brain's Amazing Ability to Process Stereo Sound

There's a lot of amazing things about how the brain works, and in this post I'm going to explore the phenomenon of binaural hearing – that is, your brain's amazing ability to hear with both ears ("binaural"), combine the signals, and quickly extract useful information in a way that I think should basically be impossible for the slow meat-computer that it is. Crazy stuff! Here we go!

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