10-21-2020, 06:39 AM
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one-balled nipple jockey
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https://markosiandotnet.files.wordpr...usic_.web_.pdf
Sideways Music
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Another option for the Spacetime Theorist is to accept that normal music has intrinsic aesthetic value, and to maintain that sideways music does, too. The proponent of The Spacetime Thesis who takes this approach will explain our reaction to hearing sideways music (which is to perceive it as a very short-lived cacophony of sound rather than as beautiful music) by claiming that, as a result of how human consciousness works, we are just not very good at perceiving the aesthetic value of sideways music.9 I for one do not find this response at all plausible, but this may well be simply an area where intuitions differ. In any case, I want to register that if this is the best response to my argument that is available to the Spacetime Theorist, then we have again uncovered a surprising and substantive commitment (concerning both the nature of aesthetic value and the limits of human perception) of those who endorse The Spacetime Thesis.1
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