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how are we able to clearly distinguish two different sound waves - like when someone is talking to us while music is playing in the background... I've read it is due to the superposition principle which states that the waves combine and form a resultant wave that is the sum of the individual waves..
I don't quite understand how this implies that we can distinguish which individual waves a resultant wave is made up of.. how is the brain able to determine these individual waves from the resultant wave - isn't there an infinite number of possible waves that can combine and form a given resultant wave??
I don't quite understand how this implies that we can distinguish which individual waves a resultant wave is made up of.. how is the brain able to determine these individual waves from the resultant wave - isn't there an infinite number of possible waves that can combine and form a given resultant wave??