Idea: How we know that we're being followed by another person
I'm outlining this because I'm lazy today. We are much more aware of sound that we think. The first time this became clear to me in my own life, was when I saw a great horned owl for the first time. I saw it sitting, not far from, on top of a telephone pole. It flew away, and I had this incredible spooky feeling, or feeling of unreality. I then realized that it was because there was no audible sound. Every other time I'd seen a bird that size flying away, there was a subtle sound that was just missing. This might also explain why various people's have referred to owls as being spirits. Our sensitivity to differences in timing is incredibly small, possibly less than six mircoseconds, and our precise short term audio memory could be as long as 20s. Audio quality in networked systems (Human hearing) When humans are observing other people, they tend to fall in sync with each other. (This is facilitated by mirror neurons.) If a person is following another person, or watch...