On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 03:09:13PM -0700, James Warden wrote: > I do think it has something to do with intensive vs extensive in the > following way: > > when we talk about sound waves, temperature, smell, brightness, etc, these > are macro-observables representing a statistically huge number of > micro-states. This is how our human senses make sense of these huge sets (cf. > statistical physics founded by Boltzmann that explains classic > thermodynamics). It is therefore difficult for our brain to strictly quantify > variations of these huge sets that our senses can only approach "roughly" by > statistical "reduction". > > On the other hand, any discreet observable that our senses can reach directly > (e.g. volume of an object of the same size order as our own body) is easily > quantifiable. > > Just a guess ...
I need to think about this... It's 00:20 here, so that will be for toworrow. Ciao, -- FA There are three of them, and Alleline. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
