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| Saurabh |
 Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 11:05 am |
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Below, I have a written a few questions and thoughts that ocourred to
me.
What is the relationship between truth and emotion ?
How do intentions, consciousness, subconsciousness & beliefs
interact ?
Of all the possible true interpretations of a statement made by A to
B, how can B find out which one is intended by A ?
Must A make statements which have exactly one true interpretation ? Or
should A allow B to react to A's statements and thereby find out what
probably is in B's mind ?
How should/would B react to the intended interpretation of the
statement A has made ? What would be B's conscious reaction ? What
would be B's subconscious reaction ? What affects one's subconscious/
conscious mind ? When does one react consciously and when
subconsciously ?
Can B find out A's statement's intention even if A's statement is
false ?
Can B make explicit an alternative true interpretation of a statement
made by A to alter the belief system of A [or perhaps of all around
A] ?
Real, illusion, dream, imagery, delusion - how to identify one from
others ?
How does my external behavior and my mentalese interact ? Does my
mentalese affect external behavior or visa versa ? or both ways ?
(According to Buddhists, external behavior precede mentalese.) What
exactly constitutes my external behavior/mentalese ? (Doesn't my
external behavior become my mentalese subsequent to my perception of
it, and my external behavior become others mentalese subsequent to
their perception of it ? Seems likely. But must all my mentalese have
a correlate to external behavior ? Don't elements of mentalese (which
cause or are caused by other/same elements of mentalese) and which
have no correlate with external behavior exist ? Or are we not
perceptive enough to gauge their correlates with external behavior ?
Isn't this question open forever ? Let us assume a finite set of
elements of mentalese are known. Some of these elements have a
correlate and others do not. Consider now those elements whose
correlates are not found at present are worked upon and in some future
time they are correctly found. Can the possibility of the existence of
menatlese which we are ourselves not aware of. (like elements of our
mentalese, which we are unaware of and which we do not share by anyone
else either ! By uniqueness of these elements I refer to the
uniqueness of the type of elements involved ? That is I do not refer
to qualia which is about having a distinct subjective experience about
some entity about which some objective aspect also exists. ) ever be
completely done away with ?
"Simple living and high thinking" - Mahatma Gandhi, "High living and
high thinking. And why not ?"- Saurabh Mittal. Is simple living
conducive of high thinking ?
Chinese room thought experiment and music : does playing a memorized
piece of music correctly, imply that the musician who plays it
understands it ? What does it mean to understand a piece of music ? To
know its constituent notes/meter, their emotional import, or to know
the structure/form of the entire piece of music & the emotional import
thereof, or the structure/form or emotional import of combination of
sub-structures/sub-forms of the piece of music ? [or above means
'inclusive or'].
Perception and music : To identify/know intervals of frequencies is to
know relative pitch. How do we recognize tunes without being able to
identify intervals of frequencies explicitly ?
Analogy : Looking at a (black and white)/color picture of a person, we
can identify the person. Identification of tunes by most of us is like
seeing the person in black and white (analogical to having a
subconscious/subjective sense of relative pitch) whereas to see a
person in color is analogical to having a sense of absolute pitch. Why
is color perception common and absolute pitch perception rare ?
Recognition of ragas : how do people without an explicit objective
sense of relative pitch identify ragas ? How do people relate to music
emotionally ?
Why people differ on preferences in music ?
Perceive (Beauty in Mathematics and Truth in Art) or perceive (Truth
in Mathematics and Beauty in Art) ? [or - inclusive]
[Truth is the foundation for all learning and Mathematics gets one
closer to Truth like no other form of learning. Thus pursue
mathematics before all else].
Order is not logically essential for the definition of a number
defined in terms of a one to one correspondence relation.[from a text
by Bertrand Russell] Most of us are so accustomed to the order of
numbers [1,2,3....], that it is difficult to visualize them defined
independently of the notion of order. For example, if one thinks of
the number 2. The notion that 1 precedes it and 3 follows it, comes to
our minds almost instinctively. So to visualize the above definition
of a number, imagine distinct numbers to be denoted by distinct
colors and now visualize a sequence of numbers as denoted by colors,
since most of us do not perceive order to be inherent to colors, the
idea that each number can be defined independently of the order
becomes clearer. [i thought about this 2-3 days back]
'one' - 1 [the word 'one' denotes the number 1], 'pi' - 22/7 [the
word 'pi' denotes the ratio 22/7] . think of the word 'one' and 1
instantly springs to our minds and visa versa, yet, think of the
'word' pi and the ratio 22/7 may or may not instantaneously spring to
our minds. Why ? [because pie has a different meaning in the English
language ?]
Symbolism and evolution : How does the significance of a symbol
evolve ?
Relationship between timbre and viscosity ? - (santoor - water;; sarod
- honey , sitar - juice)
When we see, we see both color and shape. Possible to visualize one
without the other ?
Timbre, volume and their emotional correlates ?
We never see the 'present'. What is seen is light reflected from the
object seen which takes a short finite time to reach our eye before
the object's perception takes place. So we always see the 'past' ! |
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