Posted by medlib on January 19, 2002, at 2:42:43
In reply to Music and Math for sid, posted by IsoM on January 15, 2002, at 20:12:43
> I see life like a tapestry, almost everything I look at or observe, nature, people's social contacts, birds, clouds & sky with trees, it's all a pattern. I don't so much 'see' the patterns as 'sense' them. It's very much like there's another sense involved than the normal 5 senses but I have no name for it.
--------------------------------------------------Hi IsoM---
It's nice to encounter another pattern person. Patterns--visual, auditory and virtual--have dominated my perception and cognition all of my life. I think of it as my x-ray sense, because patterns are the structural bones/skeletons of all matter (its internal and external relationships). Various applications of pattern recognition and memory are measurable aptitudes which seem to be partially heritable (Johnson O"Conner). I don't know how many have detected that these abilities are component parts of a pattern "sense"--or have written about it. I figured that I got an oversupply of pattern sense because I have so little of other more common (and useful) abilities. My ability to recognize or remember single items which don't make a pattern for me (visual observation) is near zero; and my ability to reorder patterns to create novel structures (creativity) is not much better.
Re music and math: For me, both of these are expressions of patterns. The written notation of music describe the temporal, tonal and rhythmic relationships of auditory patterns. Math notation describes virtual patterns (which may or may not be quantitative). I've always found the connectedness of patterns fascinating. For example, fractals are expressed physically (trees, fern leaves), auditorially (pink and brown noise, fractal music), visually (brilliantly colored "graphs") and virtually (financial market analysis). For me, reality is all about patterns, whichever perceptual sense is used and whatever notation describes them.
Thanks for the interesting thread!---medlib
P.S. Have you considered just recording the songs you'd like to remember? A musician could transcribe them from your recording, if you wish.
Beauty need not always be as ephemeral as normalcy.
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