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    It is not the case that The analogy between sound localization and earthquake localization fails at a crucial point

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    • 1.Earthquakes can be localized at their hypocenter only when we have at least a rough representation of their full extension in space, making the center identification meaningful
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    • 2.The auditory system does not identify the sounding object's location as the center of expanding sound waves
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    • 3.The auditory system does not identify the sounding object's location as the center of anything at all
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    • 1.Earthquake localization is inference from wave-arrival time differences to a spatial origin, a process entirely external to perceptual phenomenology.
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    • 2.Auditory localization is constituted by interaural time and level differences yielding direct phenomenal presence, not post-hoc triangulation to a wave-source center.
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    • 3.O'Callaghan's work on auditory perception shows the auditory system encodes source direction and distance, not wavefront geometry, making the center-of-expansion model phenomenologically inert.
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    • 1.Casati and Dokic's distal theory holds sounds are events at their sources, but this requires the perceptual system to genuinely track source location as a structured spatial object.
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    • 2.Earthquake hypocenters are identifiable as centers only because seismologists model the full rupture geometry, a representational resource unavailable to naive auditory perception.
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    • 3.Without equivalent geometric representation of expanding wavefronts in auditory experience, the analogy imports explanatory structure that the auditory case simply lacks.
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