When quantification destroys qualitative perception, bare sensation replaces experience.

Evidence

To be still able to perceive anything at all, regardless of its quality, replaces happiness, since omnipotent quantification has taken away the possibility of perception itself. In place of the fulfilled relation of experience to its subject-matter, we find something merely subjective, physically isolated, feeling that is exhausted in the reading on the pressuregauge. — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 257

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: A psychophysical detection threshold does not ensure subjective meaningfulness of the change; Thresholds compress graded experience into crude before-after discontinuities — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 269; Content-indifferent sensation erodes judgement and drives catastrophic degeneration. — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections from…, 257 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Thresholds compress graded experience into crude before-after discontinuities #expands (0.88) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 269
• A psychophysical detection threshold does not ensure subjective meaningfulness of the change #expands (0.85)
• Content-indifferent sensation erodes judgement and drives catastrophic degeneration. #expands (0.80) — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 257
• Psychoacoustic quantization is the only stage in audio coding that removes signal information #exemplifies (0.75)
• All systems of representation spatialize and thereby distort lived experience #complicates (0.72) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 1293
• Perceived dissonance resists full quantification because it is a human impression #expands (0.72) — Eric J. Heller, Why You Hear What You Hear- An…, 2338
• Sensation grows with the logarithm of stimulus strength rather than the strength itself #qualifies (0.70) — Eric J. Heller, Why You Hear What You Hear- An…, 1997