Posit: if you can understand why abstract sound patterns in minor key sound "sad" (and "happy" for major key), you are 17% of the way to understanding how abstraction works -- and 17% would be earth-shattering progress
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In visual terms: a musical pattern evokes an emotion/thought not because you've heard it before and were conditioned to associate it with the emotion (that would be pattern recognition, not abstraction), but because you process it as having the same *shape* as the emotion/thought
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The notion of the shape of a thought or emotion, and the existence of classes of such shapes (thought topology, rather than thought geometry) is the essence of abstraction.
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This turns out to be mathematically expressible in terms of a framework that you could call "information topology"
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Sound patterns are associated with early learning. https://ilslearningcorner.com/2016-09-energy-ears-high-low-frequencies-affect-behavior-emotions-speech-language/ … Break it down to a mix of frequencies so to triangulate specific emotions and thought type.
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The test of this is finding the exceptions such as PTSD triggered from experience, changes the association pattern, sound or otherwise, i.e. smell, sight, touch, etc.. We grew with a great deal, a wide spectrum, of input to consolidate as survival useful knowledge and otherwise.
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help me out here 1/2 so the musical sequence is a piece of lego the shape is its color and proportions for sticking them
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2/2 together w/ other legos and the class is several bunches of lego sticked together and sorted by colors (emo/thought)
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It is intuitive that the topology of a dynamics systems manifold is its internal model, while geometric properties have more to do with behavior. Do you have any recommendations for reading on information topology?
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