On Friday, March 14, 2014 5:11:56 AM UTC-4, Kim Jones wrote: > > > On 14 Mar 2014, at 1:12 pm, Craig Weinberg <whats...@gmail.com<javascript:>> > wrote: > > Information must be made evident through sensory participation, or it is > nothing at all. > > > Craig, you have just explained to me the basis of my discalculia. No one > else has ever managed to do that in all my 57 years. >
Cool! Thanks Kim. > > Music was always instantaneously understandable to me because of the way > it gained my deep sensory participation whereas mathematics was always just > a bunch of squiggles on paper that to me were as dry as dust and as > terrifyingly remote as Egyptian hieroglyphs. Math evoked no sensuous > universe of qualia - for me. I have often felt that for those with a high > degree of numeracy, that the hieroglyphs of mathematics evoke the same > sensory participation as music does for me. Bruno, for example composes and > reads mathematical sentences with the same ease as I have in listening to > even quite complex music and writing it down from ear in standard music > notation. I sometimes refer to myself as a "mathemusician". > Yes, my wife is a musician and I have picked up a little from her about the different kinds of personalities in an orchestra. Being able to improvise is a different kind of talent than being able to read and interpret music written on a page. Music theory is different from music performance. We all have different ranges of sensitivity and some people are able to 'hear the music' inside an equation, while others perform incredible mathematical feats just by swinging a tennis racket. Craig > > I'll now watch the clip you posted! > > Kim > > > > > Kim Jones B. Mus. GDTL > > Email: kimj...@ozemail.com.au <javascript:> > kmjc...@icloud.com <javascript:> > Mobile: 0450 963 719 > Phone: 02 93894239 > Web: http://www.eportfolio.kmjcommp.com > > > *"Never let your schooling get in the way of your education" - Mark Twain* > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
