# auditory (sensory)

about audio

- Computed level: L3 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: auditory.sensory  ·  Arena: lexicon

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [audio](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-audio.auditory), [pattern](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-pattern.regularity)

**Through:** audio repeats over time in a regular pattern

**Novel properties:**
- perceptible quality
- subjective experience

## Examples
- The 440 Hz tuning standard persists in orchestras worldwide despite no central authority enforcing it. *(culture)*
- The human brain distinguishes phonemes in speech by detecting consistent patterns in sound wave frequencies. *(biology)*
- Amazon Alexa recognizes wake words by detecting specific audio signatures amid background noise. *(computing)*

## Used by
- [heard](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-heard.auditory) (L7)

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*Canonical: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-auditory.sensory*  
*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-auditory.sensory.json*  
*Every definition provably resolves to space, time, energy and pattern.*