Occams Hatchet and Is Materialism "Special"

[bennyboy]

Actually, we talk about sound waves because we can map them, we can set sensors down and track their movement -as- a wave.  We can arrange the test conditions so that we can even -see- them.  We can both estimate and observe their movement and form through various mediums, we can explain the differences we observe -between- medums.  We can test the accuracy of our model to describe them every time we use sonar, or build a guitar.  Either everything just happens to look like this, and we're wrong, but incredibly lucky.........or......

Music is more than sound.  The sound represents complex ideas and feelings, and sound is a medium for that.