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That's still a physical sound even if the source is internal or at the sensor.
"Non-physical sound" would necessarily be errant nerve signaling or hallucination, something on the brain side of the sensor.
Yes. I'm not sure what you're disagreeing with? The discovery was that it is possible to record tinnitus from someone's ear when we thought it was a neurological phenomenon. So tinnitus does actually produce a physical sound, even in cases that don't have a known physical cause like muscular tinnitus (https://dizziness-and-balance.com/disorders/hearing/tinnitus/ME.html). I'm just theorising what could be causing the physical sound in such cases.
edit: oh, I see, this is in context of the question I was replying to. "Physical sound" doesn't mean "it was perceived by something physical" it means it's actual vibrations in the air. We thought tinnitus was just abnormal brain activity, not a physical sound; turns out that is at least partially wrong.
Yeah you caught it in the edit 😁