Creating simplicity: How music fools the ear. What makes music beautiful? The best compositions transcend culture and time -- but what is the commonality which underscores their appeal? New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Research Notes suggests that the brain simplifies complex patterns, much in the same way that 'lossless' music compression formats reduce audio files, by removing redundant data and identifying patterns. There is a long held theory that the subconscious mind can recognise patterns within complex data and that we are hardwired to find simple patterns pleasurable.
Dr Nicholas Hudson used 'lossless' music compression programs to mimic the brain's ability to condense audio information. Dr Nicholas Hudson says "Enduring musical masterpieces, despite apparent complexity, possess high compressibility" and that it is this compressibility that we respond to. Ox Herding: Charlotte Joko Beck. Shambhala SunSpace recently published an interview with Charlotte Joko Beck, conducted by Donna Rockwell. In my experience, few teachers have Beck's willingness to jettison all the trappings and traditions of Buddhism, in order to express themselves without disguise. I hope you'll read the entire interview, below. How old were you when you started meditating? Charlotte Joko Beck: Thirty-nine, forty, somewhere in there. Did you have any realization through meditation?
No. Will you say more about that? I meet all sorts of people who’ve had all sorts of experiences and they’re still confused and not doing very well in their life. And may I ask you what is? Learning how to deal with one’s personal, egotistic self. There seems to be a payoff, though, because you feel alive instead of dead. I wouldn’t say a payoff. Doing the dishes is a great meditation — especially if you hate it… Well, if your mind wanders to other things while you’re doing the dishes, just return it to the dishes.
Sure. Nobody. Rediscovery. Link to recent papers on unconscious mental life. John F. Kihlstrom University of California, Berkeley Versions of this paper were presented as the presented at the Inaugural Symposium of the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, George Mason University, sponsored by the Krasnow Institute and the Santa Fe Institute, Fairfax, Virginia (May, 1993); the F.J. McGuigan Lecture on Understanding the Human Mind, sponsored by the American Psychological Foundation, presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Boston (august 1999); the keynote address presented at the annual meeting of the Australian Psychological Society, Hobart, Tasmania (September 1999); and at the Vienna Conference on Consciousness held at the University of Vienna (October 2007).
Shorter versions of this paper were published in H. Morowitz & J. Beginning with Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920) and his American protg E.B. Nevertheless, structuralism was hounded by a number of difficulties (E. 1. Gerhard Richter. Epicureanism after Epicurus. By Robert Hanrott Introduction Misrepresentation and religious hostility have pushed Epicureanism, unfairly, to the gloomy outer reaches of Western thought. Epicureanism has nonetheless influenced rational and progressive thought, particularly the humanists and enlightenment thinkers, and in the 20th Century it has influenced Ayn Rand and the Positivists. Epicureanism is neither irrelevant nor dead. Although two millenia have passed since the emergence of Christianity, the prejudice against Epicureanism survives, a tribute to the effectiveness of Roman Catholic criticism over the ages.
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