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From: sarge@thirdi.UUCP (Sarge Gerbode)
Newsgroups: sci.philosophy.tech
Subject: Re: The nature of communication
Message-ID: <191@thirdi.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 23-Sep-87 00:55:16 EDT
Article-I.D.: thirdi.191
Posted: Wed Sep 23 00:55:16 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 25-Sep-87 07:21:26 EDT
References: <2374@mmintl.UUCP> <4750001@hpindda.HP.COM>
Reply-To: sarge@thirdi.UUCP (Sarge Gerbode)
Organization: Institute for Research in Metapsychology
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Keywords: music emotion symbols
Summary: Response to music = cultural firmware?

In article <4750001@hpindda.HP.COM> seshadri@hpindda.HP.COM (Raghu Seshadri)
writes:
>The language of music knows no boundaries". In other words,
>these sound - sets already seem to have a predefined meaning in our
>minds and are capable of evoking precise moods.  Without overstating
>this, in some sense, it must be hardwired in our mental make-up.

I think there is also "software" involved, surely.  A Western repsponse to
eastern music is surely different, emotionally and in other ways, from an
Eastern response to the same music.

Maybe it is sort of in between -- cultural "firmware"?
-- 
"Absolute knowledge means never having to change your mind."

Sarge Gerbode
Institute for Research in Metapsychology
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