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Post by Moose on Sept 23, 2016 2:41:56 GMT
How is it that each - or nearly each - individual human voice is distinctive, or at least when we are familiar enough with it? I can remember perfectly my dad's voice, or my granddad's. I could identify the voices of any of my friends instantly if I heard it (okay over the phone there is sometimes distortion, but in real life I could). And yet there are seven billion humans on earth and goodness knows how many billions who have existed before. All unique voices. If we hear them enough.
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Post by Mari on Sept 23, 2016 19:27:09 GMT
I heard a while ago that any human can only remember about 45 faces or so. Not entirely relevant, but maybe voices aren't all different, just like they say everyone's got a twin somewhere in the world.
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Post by Moose on Sept 23, 2016 20:22:43 GMT
I can't remember any human faces but I think that's just me
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Post by Kye on Sept 23, 2016 21:38:18 GMT
And me!
I have a friend who's a super-recognizer. We can be walking down the street and he'll say "Oh, that girl was in one of my classes 7 years ago" (true story. I'm sure he remembers more than 45 faces. I'm face blind and I don't even always recognize my own children.
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Post by Moose on Sept 23, 2016 23:23:38 GMT
Yeah I would have thought that most people could recognise more that forty five .. most people are acquainted with rather more than that at any one time, at least
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Post by JoeP on Sept 24, 2016 10:48:00 GMT
We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us, and we drown.
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Post by Moose on Sept 24, 2016 20:49:07 GMT
Well quite.
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