PHILOSOPHY of MUSIC


***HONORS 301-03

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Objective and Subjective

In class we spoke about about neurological transmitters in the brain, that which transmits sound into music, and whether this is objective or subjective.

I believe it is both:

Objective-- when you look at all humans, generally, all have these neurological transmitters inside a brain all humans also possess. If one was to put this on a chart in an objective view, the deviations would be very small...

So we look at it as a whole-- all humans have these transmitters so we see it as objective, something we all possess.

If you would zoom in on the chart, it would show that these transmitters can be subjective, it shows the slight differences between humans' transmitters-- the more you zoom in, and all are slightly different so the deviations become larger.
Now you can see that after zooming in, like a fractal- which is infinite,
there are many different types of transmitters for the many different types of humans and so it becomes subjective.

In this chart, the fact that we all have these transmitters (objective) is still there but what's more important is the large deviations from what type most humans have compared to what type the least amount of humans have.

The fact there are different types makes it subjective.

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