Experiencing fundamental emotions, rapture, and the marvelous and such like are not concepts but reflecting on them are. Some aspects of tacit knowledge (that which has been transmitted to us) cannot be fully explicated (made explicit by means of translation). It is only when we translate what has been transmitted that we have concepts. At least that's the notion I'm studying in Collin's new book Tacit and Explicit Knowledge. I'm making the leap from this study to aesthetics. Thus what we experience aesthetically -- and what moves us -- can't be fully translated. Again the important point is to distinguish between transmission of something the translation of it. Collins would say the singer's voice is a "sting" that imprints us but our translation of that can't be fully communicated because we then use different "strings" like language even when we are communicating to ourselves about what has been transmitted to us.
This is relevant to Cheerskep's quest to know what happens during an aesthetic experience. This book by Collins could be an extraordinary help to any study of aesthetics but he, as a scientist, is more interested in information theory and its sociological implications and applications in computer science, industry, and other fields. I wish others who were well versed in the philosophy of at and aesthetics would join me in examining Collins' new work. He is regarded as the world's foremost expert on tacit knowledge. WC ----- Original Message ---- From: joseph berg <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sat, May 1, 2010 5:42:15 PM Subject: "...Arousing strong fundamential emotions...aesthetic rapture, concepts which were attempts at accounting for the marvels that [art] could produce." Is THAT what we live for?: http://www.welove-music.net/2010/05/alim-qasimov-azerbaijan.html
