drarthurwells
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Music appreciation is a matter of interpreting a non-verbal language that communicates to perceptual-emotional processes in the brain.
The basis of all intellectual processing is perceptual, not conceptual. Perceptual processing is in terms of non-symbolized thought and involves temporal and spatial integration of particles (things) in space over time (material existence). The material universe is discrete and not continuous - continuity, as say in movement of particles, is an illusion. However, the non-material universe is continuous, outside of space and time, as a quantum wave function in supposition of simultaneously existing potentials, but the wave function collapse produces material phenomena in the world as we know it (however illusionary it really is).
The universe runs on information that is coded in pulses or vibrations (waves) which can regulate energy to manifest as matter. God is the quantum computation of these pulses.
The language of pulses is a phase code, embedded in waves (materially in amplitude and frequency functions). Music is kin to this language. You could say in music we communicate with aspects of the universe, or God. This is a different reality than that of our everyday sensory experience of the material world.
In appreciating music you are understanding its phase code of different sounds, at different frequencies and tempos, with varying loudness levels.
The complexity of music presents intellectual demands on perceptual functioning. When these demands are unmet, you will be unable to appreciate the music. Much classical music is actually not so demanding but much can be very demanding. This is true also of non-classical music - Mike Oldfield's Hergest Ridge, or his Amarok, presents intellectual demands that exceeds much classical music.
However, it is not just enough to intellectually master the music you hear. Its coded language has to resonate with your emotional center (that is responsible both for your motivations and your feelings). This can vary from one person to another just like our individual motivations and needs vary - some of us are liberals and some conservative and most are mixed, etc. Shostakovitch and Prokofiev may resonate with one person while Bach and Mozart with another.
You must find your best fit in music, both intellectually and emotionally, while also seeking to grow and develop your tastes. Doesn't mean you can't return to and enjoy your earlier favorites, just mean you want to also expand your ability to to understand the language of the universe.
At a God level of the universe, reality is a vast and ever changing symphony of sub-quantum vibrations - the computational basis of materialization.
The basis of all intellectual processing is perceptual, not conceptual. Perceptual processing is in terms of non-symbolized thought and involves temporal and spatial integration of particles (things) in space over time (material existence). The material universe is discrete and not continuous - continuity, as say in movement of particles, is an illusion. However, the non-material universe is continuous, outside of space and time, as a quantum wave function in supposition of simultaneously existing potentials, but the wave function collapse produces material phenomena in the world as we know it (however illusionary it really is).
The universe runs on information that is coded in pulses or vibrations (waves) which can regulate energy to manifest as matter. God is the quantum computation of these pulses.
The language of pulses is a phase code, embedded in waves (materially in amplitude and frequency functions). Music is kin to this language. You could say in music we communicate with aspects of the universe, or God. This is a different reality than that of our everyday sensory experience of the material world.
In appreciating music you are understanding its phase code of different sounds, at different frequencies and tempos, with varying loudness levels.
The complexity of music presents intellectual demands on perceptual functioning. When these demands are unmet, you will be unable to appreciate the music. Much classical music is actually not so demanding but much can be very demanding. This is true also of non-classical music - Mike Oldfield's Hergest Ridge, or his Amarok, presents intellectual demands that exceeds much classical music.
However, it is not just enough to intellectually master the music you hear. Its coded language has to resonate with your emotional center (that is responsible both for your motivations and your feelings). This can vary from one person to another just like our individual motivations and needs vary - some of us are liberals and some conservative and most are mixed, etc. Shostakovitch and Prokofiev may resonate with one person while Bach and Mozart with another.
You must find your best fit in music, both intellectually and emotionally, while also seeking to grow and develop your tastes. Doesn't mean you can't return to and enjoy your earlier favorites, just mean you want to also expand your ability to to understand the language of the universe.
At a God level of the universe, reality is a vast and ever changing symphony of sub-quantum vibrations - the computational basis of materialization.
