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Music to me is a perfect example. The X factor or various shows try to reduce it to a formula and to me the result is crap (in my opinion). Likewise with cooki
by collyw 8y ago
Music to me is a perfect example. The X factor or various shows try to reduce it to a formula and to me the result is crap (in my opinion).
Likewise with cooking, but I guess many people like McDonalds.
- jamesrcole 8y agoThat's not reductionism. I won't repeat what I've argued elsewhere in this thread - it should be pretty easy to find my explanation of why.
- sudosteph 8y agoA pop culture "formula" to tailor a piece of art to suit the tastes of a particular audience is not really an example of actual scientific reductionism though. It could potentially be "scientism" if anyone actually believed it was scientific, but I don't think most would. A better example of a reduction that relates to music, would be about how you can predict which combinations of notes will sound dissonant by looking at intervals between the frequencies of notes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consonance_and_dissonance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consonance_and_dissonance ). Yes, it means a lot properties of music can be defined in relatively simple mathematical terms (timing and chord theory being other ways) - but that doesn't mean the interaction between those properties isn't still complex and beautiful. It just gives us more ways to explore that beauty.
- scotty79 8y agoHow could you get perfect model of music until you have perfect model of brain? Expeirience of music happens there. You can't just say let's not try to explain sth because previous attempts fell short. If that was what smart humans do we would still be in awe why the fire is burning.