[LAD] twice as loud

Philipp Überbacher hollunder at lavabit.com
Thu Jul 22 21:53:14 UTC 2010


Excerpts from fons's message of 2010-07-22 23:24:24 +0200:
> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 01:56:41PM -0700, James Warden wrote:
> 
> > > This is
> > > probably closer to the object size comparison.
> > > I wonder how well we can judge something like twice the
> > > brightness.
> > 
> > or smelling a perfume twice stronger :)
> 
> A very nice analogy, taking us even deeper into fuzzy territory...
>  
> > It reminds me a little about intensive and extensive variables
> > in physics. That may well be unrelated though ...
> 
> I don't think it is directly related to that particular
> difference. But it certainly is related to a more general
> form of it - seeing each 'unit' in its own domain, and
> some domains being fully isolated from others.
> 
> We all agree on what 'red' means. Because we have learned
> the meaning of that word by association.  But do we 'see'
> the same thing ? AFAIK, that is impossible to verify.
> 
> Ciao,
> 
> -- 
> FA

This however is a thing I did wonder about. The general question of
whether perception is the same for every human, whether colors are the
same and so on. It most likely is hard to impossible to verify, but I
have to assume it is at least similar. It's a very nice question for
sure.
-- 
Regards,
Philipp

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