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It should be. If you mean they aren't representations, then yes, that's my point. On the screen. In the game in which we agree to pretend that the scr...
November 21, 2020 at 23:36
Day 2, Saturday 21st 9.40: slightly flat. Half or quarter of a semitone. Variability of this order is probably good enough to count as absolute pitch ...
November 21, 2020 at 10:51
I'm pretty sure I can report progress, albeit entirely devoid of scientific significance. I really ought to have done some prior testing to see where ...
November 21, 2020 at 00:01
Ok, anthropomorphic assumptions, apparently. Thanks for the link. With it's shockingly anthropomorphic illustration! I shall study. ... Haha, point ta...
November 20, 2020 at 18:23
Yes, until one dares to drop the re from reconstructed, and thus challenge the near-universal presumption of an original recording, and hence even of ...
November 20, 2020 at 16:18
I doubt that we ourselves do it before we grasp the reference of words and pictures. I'm open to persuasion though. Start with an ape? In what situati...
November 20, 2020 at 00:21
Ok, I may be exaggerating. Apparently it's only Bartlett and I that see the absurdity of the trace theories and memory-bank theories of memory. (Or go...
November 20, 2020 at 00:04
That's one view, which people have widely held, even before the invention of the camera. (E.g. Hippocrates. Can't locate the source. "Soul receive ima...
November 19, 2020 at 17:44
Neural events. But not words or pictures. Because I meant memories in the sense of rememberings. In the sense of the scenes remembered, I could have s...
November 19, 2020 at 13:23
As brain shivers that reset my readiness to choose appropriate words and pictures.
November 19, 2020 at 13:16
So you reject the premise that I said. Ok. Songs are sound events. Having them "in your head" is practicing brain (and general neural and muscular) sh...
November 19, 2020 at 13:06
Well, it says no representations in the brain. Storable units corresponding to (representing) external events are excluded by implication. (Was my rea...
November 19, 2020 at 12:43
Cool. And?
November 19, 2020 at 10:35
Not disputed. :cool: Ah, so not your view as a biologist as such... So, now that you think about it, it probably is all to do with storing traces in a...
November 19, 2020 at 10:26
Is that your view as a biologist? That an organism learns by storing and comparing traces?
November 19, 2020 at 09:15
Are you quite sure you are sticking with the premise?... Premise: it's neither nor If so (if you are sticking with the premise), and "how apples look ...
November 19, 2020 at 08:29
:rofl:
November 19, 2020 at 07:40
How do you get to Carnegie Hall?
November 19, 2020 at 07:25
Interesting theory.
November 18, 2020 at 21:12
Are you quite sure you are sticking with the premise?... Premise: it's neither nor If so (if you are sticking with the premise), and "what you experie...
November 18, 2020 at 18:11
November 17, 2020 at 16:25
I can't agree there. Your two-octave vocal range is between one D and another D, yes. (Let's suppose.) But a melody spanning all or most of this range...
November 17, 2020 at 14:36
Or is it neither?
November 17, 2020 at 12:50
Noooooo! ... "my seeing" nooooht a mental image (internal picture etc.). Just a person-sees-apple event. I hope...
November 16, 2020 at 14:32
Yes! This was an option I early considered, because a stimulus for the mission was being asked my vocal range by the leader of a choir I was enquiring...
November 16, 2020 at 13:18
The good news is that there are sound events and illumination events as they are commonly theorised and intuited: the sound of this instrument played ...
November 15, 2020 at 19:39
Trouble is, (3) There are no minds, sensations, feelings as they are commonly theorised or intuited..
November 15, 2020 at 19:20
Events, dear boys etc., events. Are what we order into colours, pitches and timbres. Objects, only derivatively and more roughly speaking.
November 15, 2020 at 09:46
... Namely, an ordering or classification of illumination events. Which isn't something specially suggestive of either direct nor indirect... which ar...
November 15, 2020 at 09:11
:ok: You have to play on a violin to see what sounds it makes. And you have to let the light play on a dress to see what colours it makes. A musical p...
November 14, 2020 at 23:34
A musical pitch is an equivalence class of sound events. A visual colour is an equivalence class of illumination events. (Duh.)
November 14, 2020 at 11:12
Well, I'll be. So shaman doesn't derive from and quite transparently mean sham?? Not even the other way around?? (No, sham is from shame.) :gasp:
November 13, 2020 at 10:36
Amen to that. And they, not the absolute pitches, define the patterns. At least for most people, notably young children learning to identify musical p...
November 12, 2020 at 22:21
I suppose piano teachers, especially, are always aware of the issue when engaging a young child. Because it may be the critical stage of development. ...
November 11, 2020 at 19:14
Was it about enduring a daily grind? Punctuating the passage of time with commercial breaks, maybe? Or how did he need not to rely on a clock? Yeah, I...
November 11, 2020 at 15:00
They do?? I too was unaware. At the scale of whole minutes, at any rate. I've known someone claim to have "absolute tempo", presumably involving measu...
November 11, 2020 at 14:28
Sure: hope, disappointment, confusion, frustration, excitement, triumph, despair, pleasure etc. Hadn't thought about emotional aspects, though.
November 10, 2020 at 14:29
Great. Happy to be introduced to research. I would hope to recognise some of it from previous encounters, but nonetheless. No real excuse for launchin...
November 09, 2020 at 21:22
Happens I'm about 3 weeks into an uncontrolled experiment wherein the subject (myself) attempts to acquire absolute pitch. I'm still hopeful of refuti...
November 08, 2020 at 23:23
I don't at all see how qualia is so much more ghostly an apparition than any of experience, sensation, representation or mental state. Not trying to b...
November 08, 2020 at 21:39
Am I missing something or is it quite easy? E.g. Again, this seems neutral with respect to the question whether we need to posit an internal as well a...
November 06, 2020 at 14:40
Two diamonds both identifying as an intermediate grey in most contexts will indeed be seen as contrasting greys in the ingenious context. For obvious ...
November 04, 2020 at 22:17
What, you mean in some very fleeting way, for a small moment, in some small corner of your mind? Or were you able to maintain the mistake, in some sub...
November 02, 2020 at 20:02
Not unless you mistook it for a horse, which you didn't. It's a pattern you recognised with particular ease from your perspective, but which you may t...
November 02, 2020 at 15:06
But there is, of course, a pattern we recognise as a horse-picture.
November 02, 2020 at 13:30
...then definitely use divers with one e. /uploads/files/ib/uo9dqbjavt8xnxwh.jpg
November 01, 2020 at 09:36
Just interested in what you think. :smile: I'm not at all sure if you are talking about images. :chin:
October 30, 2020 at 19:38
Colors twirling in the brain?
October 30, 2020 at 16:01
It's easy. Not a problem either.
October 30, 2020 at 14:31
Carelessness makes trouble, but scrupulous analysis takes it.
October 29, 2020 at 23:00