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    If the medium-traveling wave were the sound, then sounds ... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Sound waves are not sounds merely because sound waves are responsible for the perceptual difficulty in locating sounds.

    If the medium-traveling wave were the sound, then sounds would be located in the air between source and listener, contradicting robust cross-cultural localization intuitions.

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    • 1.Humans universally localize sounds at their source (speaker, instrument), not between source and listener, across cultures.
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    • 2.If sound were the physical wave in air, our localization would be spatially diffuse across the intervening medium, not precise.
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    • 3.Perceptual localization to a point source is more naturally explained if sound is an event at the source, not a traveling medium.
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    • 1.Cross-cultural localization intuitions may reflect learned auditory processing, not metaphysical facts about sound's location.
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    • 2.The brain localizes via timing and intensity differences without those cues directly reporting where sound ontologically 'is'.
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    • 3.We don't perceive the wave itself—only its effects at our ears—so intuitions about perceived location don't constrain physical theories.
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