Millions of Americans hear ringing in their ears - a condition called tinnitus - but a new study shows an experimental device could help quiet the phantom sounds by targeting unruly nerve activity in the brain. Results of the first animal tests and clinical trial of the approach resulted in a decrease in tinnitus loudness and improvement in tinnitus-related quality of life. [1] Deciding that something heard by millions is something fake and “disturbing”. A decision made by those who do not hear it. Senses are the result of democracy. And democracy is the worst method to determine the truth regarding philosophical problems, let alone reality itself. You may make your phantom noises go away, but you will never really listen to what is out there. Only someone without ears (or without a brain to filter what ears capture) can experience the cosmos raw and untamed, as it truly is. Would you call the humming of birds and bees in a forest disturbing? Let’s vote. I don’t like birds and bees! I don’t see any birds or bees! Ah! The humming went away. Alas! And so did everything else…
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