However, when I hear something, I just hear frequencies. This is whether I am listening to a symphony or a single sine wave, white noise, or the person currently shoveling snow outside. There isn’t anything “over and above” the sounds; they are all obviously the same “kind” of thing to me. I can categorize the individual frequencies if it is a simple enough sound, and more complicated sounds, while I can’t categorize them, don’t feel like they are anything different than just combinations of simple frequencies.
Really? Do you know how well you hear tones and musicality? Because my mind seems to attach all kinds of subtle qualia to sound.
I’m definitely not tone deaf, I love classical music, and I play the piano, so I assume I have an above-average ability for musicality. I love music, it’s just that the individual tones I hear aren’t special in the way colors are. They’re just… frequencies.
Really? Do you know how well you hear tones and musicality? Because my mind seems to attach all kinds of subtle qualia to sound.
I’m definitely not tone deaf, I love classical music, and I play the piano, so I assume I have an above-average ability for musicality. I love music, it’s just that the individual tones I hear aren’t special in the way colors are. They’re just… frequencies.