OT - Sensory Overload

[Ron Nossaman]

> My audiologist finds me quite fun to work with as hearing  impaired, 
> because in the areas where I hear, I'll tell her to adjust a sound band 
> oh, 3 db.  If she goes to 5, and sometimes even to 4, I know it and tell 
> her it's wrong.   Yet I am significnatly impaired, and have to wear 
> hearing aids..........  It's weird.
> les b

It is weird, and it's the same sort of thing with sight. 
Growing up with working sensory equipment, we get little 
indication of how incredibly thorough and sophisticated the 
background processing of these systems really is. When the 
automatic stuff eventually doesn't deliver like it used to, 
and we have to much less adequately devote CPU cycles to what 
used to be effortless peripherals functions, we begin to 
recognize to some small degree the fantastic systems with 
which we perceive our surroundings, and how dependent we are 
on their continued function. We each inhabit, albeit 
temporarily, an utterly amazing machine - home made, non 
warranteed, intermittently functional, and wholly miraculous 
in a cosmic trailer park kind of way. Meanwhile, we ante up, 
take the draw, play the hand, and try to enjoy the evening.
Ron N