So just the same way that we were able to jump over the damaged circuitry in the retina to get to the retina's output cells, we can jump over the damaged circuitry in the cochlea to get the auditory nerve, or jump over damaged areas in the cortex, in the motor cortex, to bridge the gap produced by a stroke.

The ear that listens to reproof lives, and will be at home among the wise.

The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, Yahweh has made even both of them.

The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise.

The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them.

For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me and when the eye saw me, it commended me

I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you.

He who implanted the ear, won't he hear? He who formed the eye, won't he see?

When the ear heard me, then it blessed me and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me

I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear but now mine eye seeth thee.

He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?

He's deaf, and he learned to play the piano after he received the cochlear implant.

The foreigners will submit themselves to me. As soon as they hear of me, they will obey me.

Doesn't the ear try words, even as the palate tastes its food?

For the ear tries words, as the palate tastes food.

As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me. The foreigners shall submit themselves to me.

Strangers shall submit themselves unto me as soon as they hear, they shall be obedient unto me.

Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat?

For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat.

As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me the strangers shall submit themselves unto me.

Professional hearing protectors are great I use some all the time.

But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.

But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.

And now today we have the modern multi channel cochlear implant, which is an outpatient procedure.

We would be thrilled if we had one semitone pitch perception in cochlear implant users.

So if we had to design a perfect cochlear implant, what we would try to do is target it to be able to allow music transmission.

What I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light and what you hear whispered in the ear, proclaim on the housetops.

What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops.

This is our protocell technology, effectively making a shell, like its limestone forefathers, and depositing it in a very complex environment, against natural materials.

Therefore whatever you have said in the darkness will be heard in the light. What you have spoken in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed on the housetops.

Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.

The first reflex of the fundamentalists is to withdraw from the mainstream, to build around themselves a shell that is impervious to any logic other than their own.

One study at an American university found that 61 percent of college freshmen had damaged hearing as a result of headphone abuse.

You've got tight bathing caps over your ears trying to keep the heat of the head, because it's where the hypothermia starts, and so you don't hear very well.

So my doctor got the ENT, the top guy at the clinic, to come down and give me surgery to move the tubes around my voice box.

Brain machine interfaces are already clinically well established for example, in restoring hearing through cochlear implants.

I was trying to get them to say what they probably wanted to say, to break out of their own cocoon of the public self, and the more public they had been, the more entrenched that person, that outer person was.

I've been very lucky to work with Dr. David Ryugo where I've been working on deaf cats that are white and trying to figure out what happens when we give them cochlear implants.

As a musician, I can tell you that if I had to have a cochlear implant, I'd be heartbroken. I'd just be plainly heartbroken, because I know that music would never sound the same to me.

Now if you look at the brain of an individual who has a cochlear implant and you have them listen to speech, have them listen to rhythm and have them listen to melody, what you find is that the auditory cortex is the most active during speech.

Okay, now if we consider that in a cochlear implant patient pitch perception could be off as much as two octaves, let's see what happens here when we randomize this to within one semitone.

It requires only a change in consciousness, and that can be any one of a number of symptoms, including feeling foggy, feeling dizzy, hearing a ringing in your ear, being more impulsive or hostile than usual.

Ten million Americans already have this for one reason or another, but really worryingly, 16 percent roughly one in six of American teenagers suffer from noise induced hearing disorder as a result of headphone abuse.

If we were to direct efforts towards training cochlear implant users to hear music because right now there's virtually no effort put towards that, no rehabilitative strategies, very little in the way of technological advances to actually improve music we would come a long way.

Somehow in tickling our eardrum that transmits energy down our hearing bones, which get converted to a fluid impulse inside the cochlea and then somehow converted into an electrical signal in our auditory nerves that somehow wind up in our brains as a perception of a song or a beautiful piece of music.