The early consciousness of sound

Through Artificial Counterparts.

If you've ever had a song or phrase stuck in your head ( aka an ear worm ) you have experienced a very peculiar aspect of your hearing system, that is you perceived a sound coming from the outside world and then somehow stored it, recreated and played it in a loop internally, all through biological cells and mostly without your conscious intervention…neat !

Note: This is an excerpt/draft on a book section I've been working on... part 2 of Conscious Artificial Intelligence.

This post looks at the early neural code and mechanisms needed to perceive sound and later process it, like my previous post on engrams that used vision as the domain, this one will focus on simple Artificial Analogs, toy models that serve the dual role of helping us understand by means of simplification and perhaps be scaled for use in complex AIs.

Why read this ? a): You find the subject interesting b): Current AI's while amazing and useful are in most cases not built like our brains and the neuroscience they loosely follow was written decades ago. This is usually not a problem until you are tasked with creating something new like an AI that emulates human cognitive tasks, if you want say a speech recognition program you can do that in about 3 lines of code and a few minutes of your…