Re: Difference between cognition and perception?

[Odd Torleiv Furnes <o.t.furnes@xxxxxxxxx>]

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