The nervous system (brain, spinal cord, nerves) is an organ system just like your digestive system ( liver, intestines, salivary glands, etc.). People injure and mess up parts of their nervous system all the time, through accidents and what-not. While liver damage can lead to things like renal failure, injuries to the brain can lead to changes in memory access and retention, cognition,... interesting things that make up 'personality'.

I think consciousness is biological, and human consciousness is as biological as the consciousness of other animals. I think we are extraordinary at communication, and that's the major thing making us special in the animal kingdom... we love sounds and music and seeing friends and talking and learning about people and things. We are hyper vigilant with respect to personalities, and the fine details make everyone's unique in our eyes. So when a friend dies this personality that we knew so well now only exists as a detailed set of memories in our brain. And because this isn't terribly comforting, and because we're so keen on other people, we like to think that such an amazing thing as a personality continues on somehow after death.

my two cents!

Kind of. They used the chromatic scale, i.e., every whole note between C and C. Unlike scales such as the major, minor, etc., the chromatic scale is sequential, and not built on nice sounds. You can make a LOT of bad-sounding combinations by picking notes from that scale, whereas pretty much all the notes from other scales sound good together musically.


>> ^zomgunicorns:

Here is my comment on this as a music hobbyist:
At first it seems amazing, but really, the numbers are all placed on a scale, in this case the C scale. Scales are notes that sound musical and pleasing when played after each other. So even with Pi's set of numbers, in the musical sense, as long as it's within a scale, it will sound like music. If he were to exclude scales and place the numbers in a linear fashion on the piano, it would not sound like music. And by that, I mean, if the number 1 was C, number 2 was C#, number 3 was D, number 4 was D# and ect.

>> ^zomgunicorns:

Here is my comment on this as a music hobbyist:
At first it seems amazing, but really, the numbers are all placed on a scale, in this case the C scale. Scales are notes that sound musical and pleasing when played after each other. So even with Pi's set of numbers, in the musical sense, as long as it's within a scale, it will sound like music. If he were to exclude scales and place the numbers in a linear fashion on the piano, it would not sound like music. And by that, I mean, if the number 1 was C, number 2 was C#, number 3 was D, number 4 was D# and ect.


He also used the numerical circle of fifths on a couple of the instruments, like the guitar and the zither. So mostly this was an exercise in arranging.

Here is my comment on this as a music hobbyist:

At first it seems amazing, but really, the numbers are all placed on a scale, in this case the C scale. Scales are notes that sound musical and pleasing when played after each other. So even with Pi's set of numbers, in the musical sense, as long as it's within a scale, it will sound like music. If he were to exclude scales and place the numbers in a linear fashion on the piano, it would not sound like music. And by that, I mean, if the number 1 was C, number 2 was C#, number 3 was D, number 4 was D# and ect.

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and a big hoorah for Indiana University! home of the Kinsey Institute!

ahh, I see he visited and did an interview... http://kinseyconfidential.org/dan-savage-4-hate-straight-people/

Dan - 'I’ve met that girl – the lesbian fire fighter who I just think is so foxy. And I go, “Aaahhh, oh my god, she’s so foxy, but she’s a woman, but she’s so foxy. She looks like Rolfe from Sound of Music with muscles.”'

That has got to be the most annoying sounds and music - I've heard in a while!
Down-voting that awful grating noise on my ears!

fixed it, thanks

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>> ^Lendl:
How many times can you quality ? Because this is definitely one of those times.
Also: on the shelf below the boat when he comes through the door: the part from Out of Gas
And also the twang when he says "space cowboy"


Yeah, the sounds and music are what really got me-- not only does he look the part, but all the sounds bring the ship to memory-- it's a really well done homage.

I don't mind experimental music but this women is demonstraiting a complete lack of control over what she is doing / lack of intention. I really enjoy contiguous sounds in music , its stuff like this in my opinion that devalues the genre.

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