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Hendrik Jan Veenstra wrote:

>IMO it all depends on how you're "sensitized" to certain stimuli.
Neuro-Linguistic Programming. Primary modalities.

>I've been able to feel "cold shivers" of excitment when dealing with
>certain pieces of mathematical logic for example.
I think that's what Tony Thompson was trying to say. His sensory modalities 
have never yet been moved by a mathematical theorem and so therefore 
presumably the muse of mathematics has never favoured him by sending him 
mathematics in a way he could relate to through any of his modalities.

>Listening to
>certain types of music on the other hand I just find plain boring.
No modality stimulation? Probably, there's someone or other out there who 
finds it great music.

>  A
>good novel can make me weep, under certain conditions.  There are
>paintings that left me completely silent with awe.  Etc, etc.
The arguments of NLP.

>It's pointless to try to give music some exclusive domain that
>supposedly can't be touched by other forms of human creativity.
Agreed,

>If
>anything, the limitations are within oneself and not in the medium
>per se.

Agreed. And ... this is pretty much what the advocates of neurolinguistic 
programming are trying to say. Just reprogramme your neurons and overcome 
those limitations, many of which (but not all) can be thought of as 
limitations to communication, and perceived limitations in the willingness 
and desire to both express yourself and also allow yourself to be expressed 
to.

Kool Musick
Keep Musick Kool


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