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Originally Posted by kennyc
The phenomena is the physical (read reality/physics) of the thing under discussion -- the sound wave, gravity, light.
The interpretation is the detection (by senses or detectors) and assignment of meaning to it.
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Mmm, whilst I'd partly go with the disturbance in the air being a physical phenomenon existing independently of a perceiver, doesn't "sound wave" already imply that there are some "senses or detectors" in the environment able to register and respond to the disturbances in the air?
I say only partly go along with because if you take the perceiver out of the picture aren't you just left with energy - perceivers constitute the "things" that are the objects of their perception.