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3 Post author: MrMind 16 February 2015 07:56AM

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Comment author: arundelo 16 February 2015 07:33:29PM 0 points [-]

why do colors have metadata associated with them while sound does not?

What about (for example) "low" and "high"? ("What if low pitches sound to you the way high pitches sound to me, and vice versa?")

Comment author: [deleted] 16 February 2015 07:47:30PM 0 points [-]

Hmmm. That could be true. But it still doesn't feel like there are qualia associated with sound in that way; for low pitches you can actually hear the individual vibrations, so to me it doesn't seem like it's possible for you to be hearing what I hear as a high note. The true nature of the sound is apparent at such low pitches, and it's as if there's nowhere for qualia to be hiding.