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Counterintuitively, seeing things can alter the perception of individual sounds you're hearing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGurk_effect

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You don't think reading lips helps you understand people?
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That's still not hearing.

Hearing has volume, direction, pitch, it's spacial processing etc

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Laurel / yanny has entered the chat. Hearing is also psycho, not just acoustic.
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Brainstorm / Green Needle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1okD66RmktA

I can change which one I hear on a whim, so much that I can even get Brain Needle and Green Storm out of this video.

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You could if you do lip reading
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