What the f is there in the head that can make a sound like a bass guitar string?
Seems like that’s something that could be exploited.
(you might like listening to the mcgurk effect, or shepard tones)
But conceptually there is an thing which is the brain and there are things that are external to the brain.
If the brain “learns” that it can accomplish things via this method, then that could be really problematic.
It’s hard / practically impossible to determine exactly what it is though. It might be someone in the next room, someone walking past, another sound entirely that got morphed into the sound you heard to fit your brains narrative as you were falling asleep. Might even be that your phone was hacked!
Something sort of similar: I used to feel phantom phone vibrations when I had the vibration feature activated.
And yes, it's exploited in every lossy audio codec.
The exploitation I was referring to was surreptitiously (or maybe even in some unentered way) training the brain that it can get what it wants by self generating sounds.
Our wiring is incredibly improvised throughout and the brain works hard to paper it all over.
A generous reading of Kahneman and Tversky suggests your brain even hides its own workings from itself.
Nothing sensual is presented directly: it is all contextual.
That would totally freak me out.
my point was that in order for you to hear a bass guitar sounding noise, no external stimulus is required.