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Didn't read, but isn't it obvious?

- We have several chemicals in our retina's that respond to specific frequencies of light according to some curve. They are calibrated. There is no such calibrated mechanism for how you detect sounds.

- We actually suck at identifying colors. Every 5 year old has seen the 'shadow' optical illusion where two parts of a picture are exactly the same color and they look totally different.



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