Episode 175: At Least We Didn’t Talk About Zombies (Nagel’s “What is it Like to be a Bat?”)
Very Bad Wizards
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The Problem With Comparing the Intensity of Stimuli
Some people have more papilla on their tongue that makes them taste things more strongly. Psychophysicists discovered to get around it is to say, well, instead of saying like how hot in your mouth, this is, tell me how intense this is compared to the loudness of these tones. And they found that when they did that, you could actually compare across people in taste. It's creating a new language by giving them this tool of cross modality.
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