Re:What Musical Notes Can Look Like
by lisper on Monday July 25, 2016 @03:03PM
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> both images and sounds are just activation patterns.
Yes, that's true.
> So there is a sense in which the premise of the article holds.
No, that does not follow. Sounds and images have fundamentally different structure. Images occupy two spatial dimensions. Sounds occupy one non-spatial dimension (pressure) and the time dimension. Sounds are inherently time-dependent. A sound with no time-dependent components is not a sound. All this derives from fundamental physics, and the different ways in which light waves and pressure waves propagate and carry useful (to biological systems) information about the world.
Yes, that's true.
> So there is a sense in which the premise of the article holds.
No, that does not follow. Sounds and images have fundamentally different structure. Images occupy two spatial dimensions. Sounds occupy one non-spatial dimension (pressure) and the time dimension. Sounds are inherently time-dependent. A sound with no time-dependent components is not a sound. All this derives from fundamental physics, and the different ways in which light waves and pressure waves propagate and carry useful (to biological systems) information about the world.