royalcrown
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Of course - any sense mechanism is experienced subjectively.
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Right, but say you have a FLAC and an mp3 in a sighted test, and you imagine an increase in, say, bass due to placebo effect or expectation bias. My question is: in what way does this imagined increase in bass qualitatively differ from a real increase in bass? I don't accept the postulation that the two are, indeed, equivalent, but it does pose a philosophical problem that I find pretty challenging.
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An object doesn't have color based on reflection and absorption of different wavelengths of light - my dog will never know what color shirt I'm wearing because dogs can't see in color. The frequency absorption is still there, but the color isn't, because the color is created in our brains as part of our perceptual faculties.
The same concept applies to color blind people - to someone with protanopia, there's no such thing as a red object. The concept simply does not apply to them. You could argue that the object is, in "reality," red, but that doesn't get you very far, because I could just as easily argue that the "real" color of the object isn't in fact red but some other color that only bees (being able to see ultraviolet wavelengths) can see, and we're "UV colorblind."
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Color - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Because perception of color stems from the varying sensitivity of different types of cone cells in the retina to different parts of the spectrum, colors may be defined and quantified by the degree to which they stimulate these cells. These physical or physiological quantifications of color, however, do not fully explain the psychophysical perception of color appearance."
Originally Posted by scompton /img/forum/go_quote.gif IMO that you can hear a sound is no difference than can you feel something, or hear a difference between 2 samples or feel a difference. If you think the senses of hearing and sight are subjective and imagined, so is the feeling of touch. |
Of course - any sense mechanism is experienced subjectively.
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Originally Posted by scompton /img/forum/go_quote.gif The ABX tests I took were to determine if I could hear a difference between different bit rates. I've yet to get a positive result from any test I've taken. Even if I would have gotten a positive result in a test I've taken in the past, it would have been a false positive since I've never heard a difference and I've always guessed. I'm not measuring qualitative differences but quantitative differences. I'm not trying to determine which I like better but can I hear a difference. |
Right, but say you have a FLAC and an mp3 in a sighted test, and you imagine an increase in, say, bass due to placebo effect or expectation bias. My question is: in what way does this imagined increase in bass qualitatively differ from a real increase in bass? I don't accept the postulation that the two are, indeed, equivalent, but it does pose a philosophical problem that I find pretty challenging.
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Originally Posted by scompton /img/forum/go_quote.gif BTW, you're wrong about colors. There are objective measurements of colors based on wave lengths of light. An object has color based on on reflection and absorption of different wave lengths of light. |
An object doesn't have color based on reflection and absorption of different wavelengths of light - my dog will never know what color shirt I'm wearing because dogs can't see in color. The frequency absorption is still there, but the color isn't, because the color is created in our brains as part of our perceptual faculties.
The same concept applies to color blind people - to someone with protanopia, there's no such thing as a red object. The concept simply does not apply to them. You could argue that the object is, in "reality," red, but that doesn't get you very far, because I could just as easily argue that the "real" color of the object isn't in fact red but some other color that only bees (being able to see ultraviolet wavelengths) can see, and we're "UV colorblind."
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Originally Posted by scompton /img/forum/go_quote.gif Perception of color is also measurable and has to do with the interaction of different wave lengths with cone cells in your retina. So, perception of a color is quantitative, whether or not you like a color is qualitative. |
Color - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Because perception of color stems from the varying sensitivity of different types of cone cells in the retina to different parts of the spectrum, colors may be defined and quantified by the degree to which they stimulate these cells. These physical or physiological quantifications of color, however, do not fully explain the psychophysical perception of color appearance."