mastodon 4.7.3Makes games and creativity tools. Introverted. he/they
I'm glad evolution invented richly detailed vision, hearing, and other sensory qualia before it invented human-level sentience. Imagine if everything you knew about the world came from a photoreceptor, an accelerometer, some whiskers, and a vague impression of how hungry you currently are.
I would probably develop a better sense of direction though. Gotta practice my dead reckoning. Bumping around like a roomba. Better hope there are no cliffs on this planet.
A sound recording represents air pressure. But air pressure correlates to the *acceleration* of a vibrating surface, not position or velocity, and a speaker reproduces sound by accelerating the speaker cone. So recordings are basically acceleration.
An electric guitar pickup magnetically measures the *velocity* of a metal string. I want to know: is there typically a conversion from velocity to acceleration, or is the signal just interpreted as if it were acceleration?
