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In Reply to: RE: HI-FI is ALL a SCAM ? posted by John Atkinson on November 17, 2015 at 14:01:21
So what are you saying, that our perception of the world is what our brain makes of what our senses detect and send to it? That we live in our minds? Now tell me something I don't already know.
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> So what are you saying, that our perception of the world is what our brain
> makes of what our senses detect and send to it? That we live in our minds?
Yes, The concepts we use to describe our perception - sounds, colors,
smells, etc - don't have an objective reality. That's what Roger Skoff
was discussing.
> Now tell me something I don't already know.
I already referred to the latency inherent in our hearing. Sight is much
worse, with a processing time of up to 500ms. In effect, we are all living
half a second in the past, so even the concept of "now" is subjective.
What fascinates me is that despite the different latencies involved in
hearing, touch, and vision, when we hit, say, a drum with a hand, we see,
hear, and feel the event as instantaneous.
John Atkinson
Editor, Stereophile
You may be living 500 milliseconds in the past but not me. I live decades in the past. The newest piece of equipment in my main sound system was made over 20 years ago...by me. If hi fi equipment manufacturers depended on me to survive, they'd all starve to death.
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