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Harun Yahya
Central nervous system
the face of an increasingly strong signal,
what changes in the moth's auditory re-
action determine its behavior? Using
the estimating method, which is

called the moth's perspective, sci-
entists arrived at the following
conclusions:
Ear Eardrum
The moth's reacting to the first
kind of information – in other
words, rises in the A fiber–might
cause it to make a lethal error: The
moth might confuse a long, weak
squeak from a far-off bat with the
strong squeak of one approaching to
kill it.
Such a mistake can be prevented
only if the moth uses the second
data – the gaps between the peaks The moth's ear and how it's con-
nected to its central nervous sys-
– to determine the magnitude of
tem.
the bat squeak.
The third type of data – the ac-
tivity of the A2 fiber – may serve to

turn an early warning message into a "Take action" one.
A fourth type of data, a sharp peak, is needed to give the moth the
information it needs to locate a moving bat. For instance, if the sound
is stronger in the moth's left ear than in the right, then the Apeaks will
reach the left part of the central nervous system a millisecond more
quickly than they do the left.

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