Re: virus: articulation
Aaron Cook (abc49040@cmsu2.cmsu.edu)
Tue, 24 Mar 1998 03:03:31 -0600
Well now, this would be the first time for me to write here also (I've
tried to read everything that was posted while I "figured things out"); but
my brother (Corey Cook) and I have talked about this several times before.
The answer to your question is trout, I hope that helps.
I just had to do that, sorry. The real answer (or more correctly, my
opinion) is that music (at least good music) is more than just sound and
fury, but a way to express an idea or train of ideas painting a picture
without any convetional language (you don't sing the way you talk). Good
musoc is a good meme. I will go so far as to say that there isn't a piece
of music that doesn't have a meme.
At 10:13 PM 3/12/98 -0800, you wrote:
>Hello, this being my first time to have posted here,
>let me say that I have followed several months of
>the proceedings; nice show here, with real efforts
>to explore some of the stickier aspects of "life
>as we know it".
> The randomness of pi sorta leads to the conclusion
>that somewhere out there in the sequence of digits lies
>the plain-ASCII representation of "Joe Smith, you're
>absolutely right in your prediction of April 16, 1998."
>... but it's a very long stretch of digits from the list
>of those known at this time.
> As an ex-wanna-be mathematician, I have previously been
>struck by the lowness of the probability of the matching
>of the angular displacement of the size of the sun and
>the moon and the range of the size of the shadow of totality
>during a solar eclipse. Doesn't take a terribly hi-tech
>tool to consider this phenomenon.
> Can there be "false-to-fact" memes? Alright, memes
>seem to be associated with thought-structures, or actions,
>or mental states, or heavily steeped in language forms.
>Sheesh, my memory remembers reading about memes here, but
>writing about them is way-more difficult. Eigenvalues ?
>no comment. Did Mozart use/create musical memes ? The
>measurable effect on intelligence from listening to Mozart
>would seem to argue strongly for a validity somewhere.
> Oh yeah, there's a factor of self-replication involved
>in this definition. And music that crops up hundreds of
>years after its initial articulation might very well be
>considered a manifestation of this replication ... or I
>may well be drifting off target. There is a price to pay
>for focus.
> Lotsa blind alleys in these woods.
>
>....
> living in a glass house,
> Tracy
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