On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 06:33:47PM -0700, Robert Greene wrote: > To my mind it makes not much sense to suppose that the first order > reconstruction is correct in a neighborhood of the listener > but higher order is correct in a larger neighborhood--not literally > correct. This seems "metaphysically" impossible. Where in the > set up is there any length scale? What would determine the > size of the neighborhood? Within a given error, I can see it.
Nobody claims there's a hard border between the 'correctly reconstructed' area and the rest. If you're close enough the error will be small, just as x is a reasonable approximation to sin(x) for small x, adding an x^3 term will give a better one, etc. The length scale is wavelenght. Ciao, -- FA A world of exhaustive, reliable metadata would be an utopia. It's also a pipe-dream, founded on self-delusion, nerd hubris and hysterically inflated market opportunities. (Cory Doctorow) _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list [email protected] https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
