Re: Difference between cognition and perception? (Odd Torleiv Furnes )

Subject: Re: Difference between cognition and perception?
From:    Odd Torleiv Furnes  <o.t.furnes(at)HF.UIO.NO>
Date:    Sat, 17 Apr 2004 23:27:17 +0200

Dear Eliot

>Odd Torleiv Furnes wrote:
>
>>
>>  Second, as the prime aspect of
>>listening to music probably is that of pattern detection, memory - both of
>>the recent unfolding events and of stored musical schemas - is active.
>
>
>Despite the fact that you're reiterating a point I made in an earlier post,
>I don't agree that "pattern detection" is "THE prime aspect of listening
>to music."
>THE prime aspect of listening to music is the fact that it has affective
>significance. It's easy to say, "well we must extract such significance from
>patterns," but we don't know that for a fact.

I agree, for me the meaning of music is its affective value.
Still, I believe that pattern detection (or lack thereof) precedes affection.
There are a lot of things we don't know for a fact when it comes to music,
but that pattern detection is prior to affection seems to me to be rather
obvious.

Torleiv