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If sentience develops in the same way that ours does then sure.
Our current understanding of maths isn't a fixed thing- it is just how we understand it right now.
We are massively off topic now though.
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I think something I could have been more clear on is, in the video and in the modern era more generally, the words "culture" and "race" were used practically interchangeably. That's really the problem. Because historically that logic was used to the point where some groups were described as being completely devoid of culture altogether, aka "one with nature". Whereas nowadays we know that one's race plays no determining role in what culture they grow up in.
Every culture has its own way of uplifting and degrading "types of" people, too. To that I'd say that no one form of degradation is worse than another, and no one form of uplift better than another. So, no, persecuting anybody isn't acceptable. I think Amin Malouf's In the Name of Identity covers this pretty well.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
The question of animal consciousness has been hotly debated for years- centuries really.
The notion of animals having consciousness was rejected for centuries because it was thought that allowing for any consideration that they may have would impact the field of religious thought- the closer animals get to humans the more it questions the idea that God made the Earth for man to live on.
A lot of research has been done on animal consciousness since then though- there are a number of challenges in doing the work though, mostly because it is hard to prove a negative.
Let me adjust what I said above.
A lion probably can't understand maths- and it probably doesn't even know that it is a lion.
I suggest we leave it there unless anyone really wants to talk about the 2012 Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness and the Hard Problem of Consciousness.
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Something like that.
At the end of the day, we're all going to put our own subjective perceptions onto music, regardless of any given set of rules or structure. The map is not the territory, and music theory is not music. It's the observation of music, and historically was written down to avoid the inherent problems with human memory.
The crux of this topic seems to me to be "X culture teaches music this way... I want to use that as a way to demonize said culture" ... when all cultures will teach all sorts of things in a specific way. Vedic mathematics is an approach to mathematics that is different to traditional "Western" approaches. Doesn't make it inferior as a standalone fact. You still need to figure out how accurate a methodology it is.
That's the Sherlock Holmes attitude to the issue:
"What the deuce is it to me?" Holmes interrupted impatiently; "you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.”
Regardless, I was not making a cultural judgement about geocentricity or heliocentricity, I was trying to point out that certain knowledge is empirically superior to other knowledge.
He gives himself an ulcer".
Whitesplainin' to Herbie Hancock.