Simultaneous Hearing of Polytones

Abstract The paper deals with a very difficult topic of hearing, which consists in simultaneous reception by the auditory receptor of an unlimited amount of information encoded in a sound wave. The received information is processed in the auditory cell and transmitted to the brain. The signal path must be as short and fast as possible, without the multiple energy transformations described in the traveling wave theory. The molecular mechanism of hearing, described in submolecular theory, refers to the transfer of energy to the receptor, as well as the conversion of the mechanical energy of the sound wave into the receptor potential and further into the action potential. The submolecular and electronic levels enable the simultaneous transmission and reception of an unlimited amount of information in the form of encoded, quantized sound wave energy.