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Re: Some morsels

Wow! I really believed that this basic question would be easy enough to solve, to lay some kind of groundwork for further inquiries and discussions. Now, we have this sort of butterfly-fluttering-its-wings-in-China-having-an-effect-on-weather-in-New-York-type-proposition. The issue here is whether admitting that some phenomena does exists, does it assuredly imply that we as humans can perceive it. This is the bread and butter of subjectivists. Take some pretty well established phenomena, for example let's say the skin effect, and then contend that because it exists, it, therefore, is heard by the human ear at the end of the reproduction chain. Now we have some sort of an outline of an argument that audio reproduction entails more than the human hearing mechanism. I don't know if any discussion with any kind of basis in science can ever get off the ground if things as fundamental as these can't be settled. Audio in the last fifteen to twenty years really seems to be best summed up as a paradigm lost.


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