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    It is not the case that Roberto Casati and Jerome Dokic's distal theory holds that sounds are events at their sources, grounding why auditory localization systematically tracks source locations rather than medium states.

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    • 1.The same distal event produces no auditory perception without medium vibrations; medium states are causally essential to sound, not merely instrumental channels.
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    • 2.Localization success depends entirely on medium properties (frequency, speed); attributing perception to sources alone obscures the medium's constitutive causal role.
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    • 3.Infrasound and ultrasound from sources produce no auditory experience despite identical distal events, suggesting sound identity requires specific medium-dependent frequencies.
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    • 1.Auditory localization tracks source position even when medium properties vary (e.g., same sound in air vs. water), suggesting sources, not media, constitute sounds.
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    • 2.We identify sounds by their sources (thunder, footsteps, speech), not by medium vibrations, indicating our sound concept semantically targets distal events.
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    • 3.Sound localization works via neural mechanisms that compute source location from cues, providing a mechanistic basis for why perception privileges sources over intervening media.
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