Re: Dissonance with integration?

[Martin Braun <nombraun@xxxxxxxxx>]

"As I understand it, the first level of nerves from cochlea to brain are 
something like the telephone wires that run by my house. Do they interpret 
the impulses or [simply] transmit them?"

Before musical information reaches the "language top" of the brain (same 
level as manages phonemes) the "lower machinery" has already extracted 
pitch, consonance, dissonance, chroma, and nearly all of the "emotional 
byproducts". In fact, if it was possible to black out the products of the 
"lower machinery" (say, by anesthesia), the "language top" of the brain 
would have no cue whatsoever that it was music that was in the air.


"I'm not sure what would make a memory chip happy or sad."

If a chip has the same life span with noise as with music, I would regard it 
as being equally happy with either. Just yesterday I learned that in East 
Germany average life span of humans has increased by six years after 
Communism's fall in 1989. Here the noise before 1989 was not so much an 
acoustic one, of course.

Martin

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Subject: Dissonance with integration?