>How is it that one type of waves we perceive as images and the other type as sounds.
Different instruments create different input signals. Eyes and ears function on different mechanical principles, that's why they create different sensations. The fact that both light and sound are waves is irrelevant.
The brain has two distinct processing methods to make sense of these two input signals, you can't just hook up one of them into the other. You would only receive wild static, since your brain wouldn't know how to make sense of the incoming data.
Cameron Ortiz
>> luminiferous aether
Nigga do you even Michelson and Morley?
Alexander Hall
Not necessarily
Mescaline has a funny way of blending input from sensory organs (ie: Seeing a particular colour from certain sounds, hearing different sounds when seeing colours).
Being convinced you smell ammonia from looking at a lime green blanket can be a weird experience.
Sebastian Cox
>Do we able to see sound waves if we attach an ear to the optic nerve?
Only one way to find out!
Aiden Murphy
They're not the same waves, light is an electromagnetic wave and sound is mechanical.
So the eyes detect color, light intensity and the like; and ears detect vibrations on the atmosphere.
Jackson Hill
how is an electromagnetic wave in the EM field different from a mechanical wave acting on nearly massless particles?
Nolan Morgan
My hypothesis would be that this happens on a higher cognitive level than the actual translation of signals. Some sort of interference between the brain parts that create usable images out of the different sensory sensations with the help of memorized stimuli. You do not actually smell limes after all, the brain just thinks you should based on experience. It tries to fill holes that don't exist.
Caleb Gutierrez
Synesthesia.
Samuel Barnes
>The brain has two distinct processing methods to make sense of these two input signals, you can't just hook up one of them into the other. You would only receive wild static, since your brain wouldn't know how to make sense of the incoming data. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensory_substitution
Ryan Johnson
you'd need multiple finely constructed tympanic membranes and inner ears in order to see sound, conversely hearing light would require an ear-like photoreceptor that used the shade provided by the contouring to create directional distinguishing with a less complex photoreceptor array
and I have no idea how mammalian echolocation works outside of the abstract, so I can't dissect that and postulate what a proper auditory eyeball would look like, but with an uneducated guess, I'd say it'd resemble the ear drum but with many microscopically differentiated tympanic cells instead of a single drum, a best guess visual ear drum would probably be something like a recessed optic pit and surface photorecptors as seen in simpler life forms
