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Actually, this sort of thought provoking, intelligent musings from other artists are exactly what I needed to help me through the introverted spiral I fall into now and then. I hope this continues to be a place where not only technical things are discussed but the philosophical bits as well. Thanks all Paul Quoting Krispen Hartung <khartung@cableone.net>: > You got it. When I first heard Phish, I disliked them. Then a year > later they were my favorite band. Something happened in my head that > changed how I felt about what I heard. That black box is a mysterious > thing. As you say, there are "truths" like "Song A makes me feel X", > but another person may say "Song A does not make me feel X, but Y". > Of course, putting those two statements side by side, they contradict > each other, but that isn't a problem if you restrict them to facts of > personal feeling rather than actual characteristics of music. IF we > are talking about actual inherent or instrinsic characteristics of > music, then it would be impossibe for a piece of music to be both X > and Not-X. That's absurd....a does-not-compute. So there is no > single truth about the value of a single piece of music, only > individual truths that may or may not be consistent with each other, > and which correspond to states of affairs inside the private "black > box" of thoughts and feeligs. > > I think I've turned this thread into a philosophical tract. Sorry. > > Kris