Listening To Music Engages The Previously Acquired

Common Sense Is Not A Simple Thing. Instead, It Is An Immense Society Of Hard-earned Practical Ideas - Of Multitudes Of Life-learned Rules And Exceptions, Dispositions And Tendencies, Balances And Checks.

The Secret Of What Anything Means To Us Depends On How We've Connected It To All The Other Things We Know. That's Why It's Almost Always Wrong To Seek The "real Meaning" Of Anything. A Thing With Just One Meaning Has Scarcely Any Meaning At All.

In General, We’re Least Aware Of What Our Minds Do Best.

But Just As Astronomy Succeeded Astrology, Following Kepler's Discovery Of Planetary Regularities, The Discoveries Of These Many Principles In Empirical Explorations Of Intellectual Processes In Machines Should Lead To A Science, Eventually.

Imagine What It Would Be Like If Tv Actually Were Good. It Would Be The End Of Everything We Know.