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From: cam@castle.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm)
Subject: Re: Dennett on pain (was Does AI make philosophy obsolete?)
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In article <42d9ha$qk8@percy.cs.bham.ac.uk> A.Sloman@cs.bham.ac.uk (Aaron Sloman) writes:

>Who knows -- the more sophisticated robots may even find it painful
>to hear a mozart quartet played out of tune,

In 

 AUTHOR(S)       :Seashore, Carl Emil 1866-1949
 TITLE           :Psychology of music
 IMPRINT         :New York London : McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1938
 SERIES          :McGraw-Hill publications in psychology

Seashore reports an investigation of a highly talented musical family,
who all had much better hearing than average. He was surprised to find
that the family member with the best hearing he had ever tested not
only was not a musician, but actively disliked music. It turned out
that this man's hearing was sufficiently fine that he couldn't bear to
listen to music -- it was *always* painfully out of tune. The
even-tempered deception just didn't work with ears as good as his. So
if robots are to be able to hear human music as we do, they will need
to be equipped with ears physically and cognitively close to our own;
and we are still far from understanding human ears.
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Chris Malcolm    cam@aifh.ed.ac.uk         +44 (0)131 650 3085
Department of Artificial Intelligence,    Edinburgh University
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