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From: eliot@phoenix.princeton.edu (Eliot Handelman)
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Subject: Re: Sensory Modalities
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Date: 4 Dec 90 00:39:48 GMT
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In article <4009@mindlink.UUCP> a1174@mindlink.UUCP (Peter MacDougall) writes:

;With hearing, it is not as "conscious" as sight, and therefore we tend
;to dismiss it as less important than sight.  

This isn't the kind of conclusion that I wanted to propose. The question is
not "which is more important, seeing or hearing," but rather, "what is the 
auditory equivalent of vision," and "what is the visual equivalent of 
audition." The problem here is how to extend the senses and develop ever more
powerful media, not to decide which of the senses is worth "dismissing."


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