Why is hearing called a sense?
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So the fact the tiniest bones and an ear drum can take in those vibrations, distinguish the smallest differences so a violinist and other musicians can distinguish between music notes does not impress you.  Tell that to the blind.\n\nIt is a sense because it is one of the five ways our bodies can help our brain interpret the environment around us.\n\nVertigo is feeling of imbalance.  The ear is the main organ in charge of balance.
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Sound: \nMain Entry: sound\nFunction: noun\nEtymology: Middle English soun, from Old French son, from Latin sonus, from sonare to sound; akin to Old English swinn melody, Sanskrit svanati it sounds\n1 a : a particular auditory impression : TONE b : the sensation perceived by the sense of hearing c : mechanical radiant energy that is transmitted by longitudinal pressure waves in a material medium (as air) and is the objective cause of hearing\n2 a : a speech sound <a peculiar r-sound> b : value in terms of speech sounds <-cher of teacher and -ture of creature have the same sound>\n3 archaic : RUMOR, FAME\n4 a : meaningless noise b obsolete : MEANING c : the impression conveyed : IMPORT\n5 : hearing distance : EARSHOT\n6 : recorded auditory material\n7 : a particular musical style characteristic of an individual, a group, or an area <the Nashville sound> \n\n\nNoise: \nMain Entry: 1noise \nPronunciation: 'noiz\nFunction: noun\nEtymology: Middle English, from Old French, strife, quarrel, noise, from Latin nausea nausea\n1 : loud, confused, or senseless shouting or outcry\n2 a : SOUND; especially : one that lacks agreeable musical quality or is noticeably unpleasant b : any sound that is undesired or interferes with one's hearing of something c : an unwanted signal or a disturbance (as static or a variation of voltage) in an electronic device or instrument (as radio or television); broadly : a disturbance interfering with the operation of a usually mechanical device or system d : electromagnetic radiation (as light or radio waves) that is composed of several frequencies and that involves random changes in frequency or amplitude e : irrelevant or meaningless data or output occurring along with desired information\n3 : common talk : RUMOR; especially : SLANDER\n4 : something that attracts attention <the play... will make little noise in the world -- Brendan Gill>\n5 : something spoken or uttered\n- noise·less  /-l&s/ adjective\n- noise·less·ly adverb
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"I think, therefore I am". Rene Descartes (who was a french philosopher) said this back in the 1500's. What he meant was that the fact that he can think, proves his exisance, because he could not trust his eyes to really show him reality, or his ears to really hear. But thinking is the one thing that proves he really is real. \nSomething like that. Look him up. It's real interesting.
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According to Berkeley, something only exists if it can be perceived (esse est percipi). Berkeley believed "minds" -- like yours or mine -- perceive things as well as God. He assumed that God exists. Therefore, Berkeley would say that since God perceived (heard) the sound, that it existed.
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there are different organs used for hearing but the most common is the ears.\nThis is the organ that receives vibrations of sound transferred electrically to your brain where you get a sensation from the vibration commonly referred to as hearing.
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Woman's intuition is innate, the reason for this I beleive is because when we have chidren we have to be able to sense just what they are needing because they are unable to tell us, it just so happens because of that,  are intuition allows us to know other things too. Sometimes even things we really don't want to know!  When my son was 10 he was at my sisters and I got a feeling something was wrong so I called and sure enough he was sick (tonsilitis). Another example: I knew my boyfriend was cheating on me, I could sense it. I just didn't know with who, so I bugged him and bugged him, he finally told me It was with 1 of our co-workers named Amy.
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Of course. Sound isn't defined as something we hear. It's defined as a propagating wave of vibrating air molecules.\n\nIf sound is defined as just things we hear, does that mean dolphins and bats echolocation chirps don't make a sound? Yes, they make a sound, just we can't hear it. Hearing and sound are two different things.
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It's actually the 1st sense what is called as Instinct. All other living beings use it very effectively but unfortunately we humans have relegated it to 6th sense. Years and years of mediocre thinking and education based on rationality has made our instincts a vestigial sense. We have become too obsessed with logic and accept anything for which someone gives us a rational logic even if our instinct tells us that its not right. Please understand that the only thing logic has managed to do it to explain the things happening around us. No logic or science has been able to explain the most basic and the most beautiful things around us, for example\n1. Love. emotions, compassion - There is no logical or scientific explanation for this beautiful feeling.While there are thousands of researches and studies to explain the chemical or motor responses of brain to love, nothing explains why we feel in love with some people but hate others\n2. Beauty- Why do we find a flower beautiful, why does as innocent smile of a child makes us feel happy, why do we like the unending oceans\n3. Gravity - We humans have interpreted, measured and understood so many theories of gravity but yet no one can explain what is it that attracts a human body as well as a mineral rock with equal intensity. What is the form of magnetism\n4. God and spirituality \n\nIts all instincts that are so integrated to human as being and surely is the first sense
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MATTER: THE OTHER NAME FOR ILLUSION\n\nIT IS A SCIENTIFIC FACT THAT THE WORLD COMES INTO EXISTENCE IN OUR BRAINS\n\nWe acknowledge that all the individual features of the world are experienced through our sense organs. The information that reaches us through those organs is converted into electrical signals, and the individual parts of our brain analyze and process these signals. After this interpreting process takes place inside our brain, we will, for example, see a book, taste a strawberry, smell a flower, feel the texture of a silk fabric or hear leaves shaking in the wind. \nWe have been taught that we are touching the cloth outside of our body, reading a book that is 30 cm (1 ft) away from us, smelling the trees that are far away from us, or hearing the shaking of the leaves that are far above us. However, this is all in our imagination. All of these things are happening within our brains. \nAt this point we encounter another surprising fact; that there are, in fact, no colors, voices or visions within our brain. All that can be found in our brains are electrical signals. This is not a philosophical speculation. This is simply a scientific description of the functions of our perceptions. In her book Mapping The Mind, Rita Carter explains the way we perceive the world as follows:\n\nEach one [of the sense organs] is intricately adapted to deal with its own type of stimulus: molecules, waves or vibrations. But the answer does not lie here, because despite their wonderful variety, each organ does essentially the same job: it translates its particular type of stimulus into electrical pulses. A pulse is a pulse is a pulse. It is not the colour red, or the first notes of Beethoven's Fifth—it is a bit of electrical energy. Indeed, rather than discriminating one type of sensory input from another, the sense organs actually make them more alike. \nAll sensory stimuli, then enter the brain in more or less undifferentiated form as a stream of electrical pulses created by neurons firing, domino-fashion, along a certain route. This is all that happens. There is no reverse transformer that at some stage turns this electrical activity back into light waves or molecules. What makes one stream into vision and another into smell depends, rather, on which neurons are stimulated.1 \n\nIn other words, all of our feelings and perceptions about the world (smells, visions, tastes etc.) are comprised of the same material, that is, electrical signals. Moreover, our brain is what makes these signals meaningful for us, and interprets these signals as senses of smell, taste, vision, sound or touch. It is a stunning fact that the brain, which is made of wet meat, can know which electrical signal should be interpreted as smell and which one as vision, and can convert the same material into different senses and feelings.
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Humans have some variation in the range of frequencies they can hear (lowest to highest), but not much.\n\nBy the way, the range of low frequencies *below* normal hearing is called "infrasonic".  The word "ultrasonic" means high frequencies *above* normal hearing.  People also commonly say "subsonic" for low frequencies, but this is better reserved to mean "speeds below the speed of sound" (the opposite of "supersonic").\n\nAlso, it is possible to "feel" infrasonic frequencies with your body.  I'm a bass player, and I love the "feel" of low frequencies from big bass cabinets.  So-called "sub-woofers" on high-end sound systems are specifically for those below-hearing-threshold frequencies.  Go to a dance club and you will feel those infrasonic sounds coming from some of the speakers and subwoofers.
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(1) The Sound is a  physical phenomenon that stimulates the sense of hearing. \n(2) In human beings, hearing takes place whenever vibrations of frequencies between about 15 and 20,000 hertz reach the inner ear.\n(3)  The hertz (Hz) is a unit of frequency equalling one cycle per second. Such vibrations reach the inner ear when they are transmitted through air, and the term sound is sometimes restricted to such airborne vibrational waves. Modern physicists, however, usually extend the term to include similar vibrations in liquid or solid media. Sounds of frequencies higher than about 20,000 hertz are called ultrasonic
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See this all depends.... if this were in the philosophy section, then it could be debatable.  But alas- it's in the botany section, so yes- it does make a sound.  Friction is created as it falls through the air and hits the ground, and that friction causes soundwaves.  Whether someone is there or not is irrelevant.  Humans can only pick up on a certain range of decibels anyways.  That doesn't mean just because we can't hear it, it doens't make a sound.  It just means that we can't hear it.  People need to get unstuck from themselves and think outside the human box.  "If humans can't.... must not be possible."  Meh.
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A sixth sense refers to another means of sensing something by way of something other than the five known senses. Many scientists believe that a sixth sense may be the ability to sense changes in the electromagnetic field that surrounds the earth and all of us. This theory is especially evident in animals, ever have a dog or cat that started going crazy about 30min-1hr before a storm hits? This is because they can sense the changes in the electromagnetic field (due to barometric pressure changes)  around them in their brain. They don't know what is going to happen, but they know something is different (ex- before the tsunami of 2004 hit land, many animals were seen running for higher ground.) It is entirely possible that humans have this same ability and don't even know it when it happens.
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The best instructional method probably depends upon the nature of the deafness. Is it the organ (anvil, hammer, etc...), the cortex, or hearing loss due to environmental factors? Some deaf people can hear pretty well via bone conduction, IF they know what sound is. ASL and common gestures are things we all should know. For example, if your deaf but hungry, you should lean your head back, open your mouth, and point down your throat.
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this question is actually answered in my biology book..here is what it says:\n\n"perceptions, such as colors, smells, sounds and tastes, are constructions of the brain and do not exist outside it. so, if a tree falls and no one is present to hear it, is there a sound? the fall certainly produces pressure waves in the air, but if sound is defined as a perception, then there is none unless sensory receptors detect the waves and an animals brain perceives them"
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Listening is a skill that somehow got pushed into oblivion and instead treated as something that everybody knows how to do.  It is not.  There are actually five components to listening, and most people fall short of at least one of those parts in the United States.  We treat listening as if it is a simple matter of hearing, but I can both hear a siren and completely ignore it, that wouldn't mean that I was listening to it.\n\nEffective managers know how to listen.\n\nThe five components of listening as prescribed by science are...\n\nAttending (not just hearing)\nInterpreting\nRemembering\nEvaluating\nResponding\n\nThough some of the links I've included give other tips toward improving listening as a whole or toward improving certain portions of listening, the last link is a tidy little illustration of these scientific principals.  If one of these components is missing, the act of listening never took place, no matter how much the manager insists it has.\n\nI'll give you an example.  I once stayed in a monastery, a Benedictine monastery where silence was not a vow, but very highly prized.  Silence was so prized because the monks there presume that in order to hear God, your mind cannot be cluttered with a lot of noise from the outside world.  That doesn't necessarily mean that any of them ever actually heard a sound that was God.  It means that by keeping a modicum of silence, they were primed and ready to hear whatever God would have to say whether that was with an actual voice, in idea form, or the simple wind in the trees.\n\nWell, while staying there I had a large, secular problem that required me asking the advice of one of the monks.  I prefaced my little problem by identifying it as a problem and then spilled it out for the Brother.  I spoke a good two or three paragraphs of description, out loud, and then paused for the monk to speak.\n\nTo my surprise, rather than speaking right off the bat, the monk stood there for almost a full three minutes without saying a word.  With my frame of reference, this was an awkwardly long pause.  I thought perhaps he misunderstood.  Then I thought he was daydreaming.  Then I thought he was waiting for me to say some more.  Then I thought I should ask if he was okay.  Then I thought he was trying to teach me a lesson about silence.  Then I thought I'd said something to offend him.  Then I thought he was looking right through me to some other concern.  And when all those thoughts had rushed through my head, there was still about another 2 minutes and 45 seconds before he spoke.  It was excruciating!  Out of respect, however, I held my tongue that entire time, all the while, thoughts racing.\n\nWhat was actually transpiring was that this particular monk was probably the first person to ACTUALLY LISTEN to me in my entire life.  In fact, that occurrence was so rare in my experience, that it was a shock to my system, an awkward dance in the unknown.  I think it would be for most people.  In that silence, he was mentally checking and double checking that he'd heard me correctly.  He was leaving a little room in case I had anything to add, being attentive enough to sense the full possible breadth of our intercourse.  He was remembering each piece and examining how it all related together as well as how it related to everything he knew.  He balanced all that information into a response that made real sense.\n\nBefore long, I noticed that all the brothers there dealt with listening in a similar fashion.  Later in life, I learned there are other such notions about life practiced by many different cultures and in many different ways.  Nobody, however, ever listened to me again with such intensity...and I give lectures.\n\nRather than obsessing over those five steps given above, just learn them, take them in.  Practice them here and there when you have a mind to do so.  Otherwise, it is sometimes easier to spot when you ARE NOT listening than it is to be worried about each o
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to sense and feel things. like pain!!!