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Lee Nixon @badgermcbadgerface.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Sit back. Make yourself comfortable. Scroll slowly to get the full effect (and to make sure you see the philosophical witticisms and thought-provoking insights dropped like breadcrumbs along the way). #space #solarsystem #astronomy #planetaryalignment #planets joshworth.com/dev/pixelspa...

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If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel - A tediously accurate map of the solar system

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Weird of Mouth @anpatric.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Magnificent images of the elemental.

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Lee Nixon @badgermcbadgerface.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Stop wasting my time with your childish nonsense.

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Lee Nixon @badgermcbadgerface.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

The snow drips its last Branches etch the sky in black Against winter's light #haiku #photography #landscape

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Lee Nixon @badgermcbadgerface.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Tightly packed snowmen Are the only memory Of the winter storm #haiku

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IPBES @ipbes.net · 06/01/2025

#DYK nearly 75% of major marine fish stocks have been depleted/overexploited & 50% of live coral cover on reefs destroyed? - @ipbes.bsky.social #GlobalAssessment Let’s restore our ocean's vitality & ensure a more sustainable future. 🪸🌍🧪🦈

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Lee Nixon @badgermcbadgerface.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

I specifically defined sound as that which is heard. That is not the only definition, but it is a perfectly acceptable one and not at all contentious. You are losing yourself in semantics and your determination to resist that as a viable definition is nonsensical and bordering on trolling.

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Lee Nixon @badgermcbadgerface.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

And I used it for a reason, because it is the nature of the interface between what is outside our heads and what is inside that is the point of interest I have been discussing here.

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Lee Nixon @badgermcbadgerface.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Nothing in that contradicts my post and comments. I clearly defined "sound" as that which we hear, not as the vibrations that give rise to it. If you and others wish to define sound as the vibrations themselves, that's perfectly fine, but I made it clear that it is the proximal definition I used.

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Lee Nixon @badgermcbadgerface.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Electromagnetic radiation and vibrations are simply data. Without hardware and software to interpret them, they remain invisible and inaudible. That is basic physics and biology. But I can see that you don't get it, so I won't waste any more time on trying to enlighten you (pun intended).

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Lee Nixon @badgermcbadgerface.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

No, it's the fact that they are true that makes them true. If the universe were devoid of life, it would be dark and silent, but full of vibrations and electromagnetic radiation. We make things visible in the same way that a telescope makes the infra red observable.

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Lee Nixon @badgermcbadgerface.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Just as we can ignore, on a day to day basis, the fact that light and colour is an internal construct built from invisible electromagnetism. You can ignore it and get on with the business of using it, but that doesn't stop it being the basic fact behind it.

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Lee Nixon @badgermcbadgerface.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

If you are a philosopher of perception, I'm surprised you are unaware that sound is an internal artefact and the rest is an illusion. The fact that it is so good effective means it can be ignored in favour of the convenient shorthand you use. But that is clearly not the point of this post.

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Lee Nixon @badgermcbadgerface.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

The vibrating guitar string doesn't create a sound. It creates a vibration in the air, and the amplifier creates a more significant vibration in the air. Neither makes a sound. Our ear-brain combo converts the vibration at our ear drum into something that our brain electrically turns into sound.

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Lee Nixon @badgermcbadgerface.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

I fundamentally disagree. Sound does not exist until it is heard. An amplifier received signals from a vibrating guitar string and produces a more powerful, representative vibration of the air at the speaker interface. It is not sound until an ear-brain system interprets it as such

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Lee Nixon @badgermcbadgerface.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

It isn't a sound event. It's a vibration event.

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Lee Nixon @badgermcbadgerface.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

You can see a dog barking using your eye-brain system, but that is not sound. To hear sound you need an ear-brain system. I don't know of anyone that defines sound as the visible physical consequences of a vibration event (like a shock wave from a sonic boom). Unless you hear it, it isn't sound.

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Lee Nixon @badgermcbadgerface.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

What would you define as "objects of auditory experience"?

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Lee Nixon @badgermcbadgerface.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

I don't think it's contentious to define sound as something we "hear" rather than something we feel. What we hear is derived from vibrations which are silent if we don't have an ear-brain system. Ask someone whose ear-brain system isn't functioning.

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Lee Nixon @badgermcbadgerface.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

I would argue that shape is different, as it exists independently of us, though the ability to feel shapes is dependent on us having a nervous system that can supply the necessary data. Of course, it can be argued that nothing exists in any meaningful sense if nothing is able to perceive it

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Lee Nixon @badgermcbadgerface.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

The same does indeed apply to colour - and light in general. Electromagnetic waves are intrinsically invisible. Our ability to interpret them as light and colour is a product of our eye-brain system and exists only in the heads of those creatures that have evolved such a system.

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Lee Nixon @badgermcbadgerface.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

But sounds don't exist independently of us. Only vibrations do. The ability to hear sound rather than feel vibration is contained entirely within the ear-brain system of creatures that have evolved one.

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Lee Nixon @badgermcbadgerface.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

#philosophy #QI #evolution If a tree falls and nothing hears it, does it make a sound? Another easy one. The answer is no, it makes vibrations. "Sound" exists only in the heads of those creatures with an ear-brain system, which has evolved to represent vibrations in a more useful way.

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Lee Nixon @badgermcbadgerface.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

You're posting on bluesky. So-called because the sky is blue, not because it is melancholic.

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Lee Nixon @badgermcbadgerface.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

#philosophy #QI #evolution Which came first, the chicken or the egg? This is an easy one. The answer is the egg. In evolutionary terms, the first thing we would define as a chicken hatched out of an egg laid by something we would define as "not quite a chicken".

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Lee Nixon @badgermcbadgerface.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Yes it is. But it has other connotations, like reds under the beds in the US, orange men in Ireland and feeling blue or being on a brown study. It feels like you are deliberately missing the point. Most colours have associations, black amongst them, but they still remain just colours as well.

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Lee Nixon @badgermcbadgerface.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Another connotation that does not detract from the fact that green is also just a colour

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Lee Nixon @badgermcbadgerface.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Just as yellow exists without connotations of cowardice. And green exists without connotations of environmentalism.

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Lee Nixon @badgermcbadgerface.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

I have researched it quite deeply. I fully appreciate that our language is full of negative representations of the colour black. Nevertheless, the adjective black continues to exist in its own right as a colour-name, without racist connotation.

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Lee Nixon @badgermcbadgerface.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

They had ample opportunity to demonstrate integrity prior to being elected, and they failed demonstrably. We will get very little change from this lot

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Harry Eccles @harryeccles.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

I seem to have upset the Nigel Farage fan club - so let me be clear. This man sows hate, lies and division. He is a grifter and a conman. He does not represent the vast majority of Britons. Repost if you agree P.s. multiculturalism is great.

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Lee Nixon @badgermcbadgerface.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Hudsonian Godwit #BurtonMarsh UK 2024. A rarity in these here parts. #birding

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Lee Nixon @badgermcbadgerface.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Can I ask, did you take both the images that you composited to make the left hand image?

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Lee Nixon @badgermcbadgerface.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Altocumulus perlucidus, appearing strangely "flattened". #clouds #skywatching #photography

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