Re: OT: Eskimo words for snow (Re: what's a "froplet"?)
Re: OT: Eskimo words for snow (Re: what's a "froplet"?)
- Subject: Re: OT: Eskimo words for snow (Re: what's a "froplet"?)
- From: bryan <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2002 21:37:02 -0400
At the risk of getting completely off topic, (personally,
I want to thank the list moderators for permitting this
conversation) I want to assure those interested that the
reference to chakras as harmonic nodes is not so far fetched.
In med school I had opportunity to work with a group of
neurologists and psychiatrists using brain mapping of EEG
data. Many of the phenomena that have quantifiable correlations
are clearly resonances. I have even come to believe that is
the source of the emotional impact of music. The acoustic
harmonies and melodies are directly mapped to the cortex
at the first level of sensory input, (even before recognition)
and the waves of cortical activation that emanate, follow
physical neural pathways but are still very similar to standard
wave propagations. The mind is very much wave transmission
through a medium. That medium is synaptic neurochemical
conduction across the neuronal sea of the cerebrum. The waves
are depolaraztions (firing) of the neurons in cascades with
modulations of enhancement and inhibition that are very
susceptible to harmonics and can be considered to be (in
metaphor) a musical instrument that modifies itself to the music.
The brain grows new synapses on paths that are used and deletes
connections on paths that are not.
Be careful of the music you play. You are what you think.
Or at least, you will become what you think.
I'll stop before I get into the social engineering aspects.
Bryan Kaufman MD, MS
mike helbert wrote:
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>>> Re: Steven Pinker's "The Language Instinct"
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>> I had to wonder at their literacy level with
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regards to music.
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>> It just seemed to me that they're describing
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concepts much
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>> better voiced through music, music notation, and
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music
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>> theories. In that light, their explanations and
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>> conceptualizing seemed rather juvenile.
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> for example? (the musicologists on the list will be
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interested)
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For example their theory that memes (hope that's the
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correct
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spelling) are evolving, superseding their ancestor
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memes and
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attaining a new broader meaning, that current
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generations have
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so much more to absorb, and express things which have
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a deeper
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import than previous ones. All of this at an
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increasing rate so
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that everyone in a major urban center talks faster
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than the
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proverbial DJ from Buffalo.
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That kind of notion doesn't strike me as anything
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different than
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the natural evolution of languages in the proceedings
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of many
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cultures. For thousands of years, the NeXT (sic)
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generation has
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been reactionary to those which have preceded them and
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proposed
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and acted upon the "new" thing. Compare icons on your
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desktop to
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Egyptian hieroglyphs. How different are the notions in
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terms of
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communication? A nutshell summary of a concept in a
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graphic that
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in all likelyhood will be misunderstood by someone
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looking at
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them four thousand years later. Anything new there?
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What seemed to me to be missing from their theories
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were
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ingredients common to musical thought but not unknown
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in other
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areas of human endeavor. I'll try for an analogy with
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the
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concept of a fundamental and resultant harmonics as
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applied to
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thought processes.
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If one sings a tone for any length of time, such that
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resonances
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manifest themselves, a portion of the natural overtone
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series
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can be realized. Once that happens, it's only a matter
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of
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practice and development to extend the range and
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number of nodes
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able to be sung. Maybe in yoga terminology called
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opening up a
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few chakhras. In the process, some laws of music start
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to make
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themselves apparent. The Law of Octaves for instance
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or the fact
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that the twelfth seems highly related to the
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fundamental. By
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using only those two items, scales can be derived.
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When that
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occurs, so also occurs the audible fact that a natural
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twelfth
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throws a spanner into the works by being a tad off for
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equal
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temperment. Hence we learn to inflect the nodes so
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that it
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becomes possible to think in terms of keys, key
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modulation and
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beyond into atonalism.
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The important word in the above paragraph is
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"inflect". In order
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to consciously deal with the above with respect to
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equal
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temperment, it's implicit that a musician be able to
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encounter
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at least 12 "viewpoints" of the same idea in
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relationship to
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some fundamental. When this is achieved, the kinds of
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analytical
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methods I heard on that broadcast appear trapped in
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linearity
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with little or no component/complement of circular
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logic. In
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addition to which, I gotta say that none of them had
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any
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resonance in their voices to speak of and for folks
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who seem to
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be dealing a lot with what the spoken word conveys,
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didn't have
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a heck of a lot of nuance in the pitch variance of
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their voices.
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OK....but what's a "froplet"?
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