Furthermore; in the case of music it is the vibrations that we are responding
to. It is precisely because we are human that we have any response to this
stuff at all. We ascribe some meaning to those responses...good, bad, warm,
cold, green, blue, mother-in-law, pumpkin. We are reacting to the vibrations
of the music and making meaning from that reaction. Each of us responds
entirely uniquely to the same set of vibrations/sounds. A machine may react
to the music by recording data, or performing some other programed
response, but it cannot and will not experience any feelings, or ascribe any
meaning to the experience of the music. It will have no desire for more bass.
It will not prefer Bach over Greenday. Are audio manufacturers designing for
machines or for people? I think the latter as their the ones with the wallets.
It's like asking a computer to taste test some wine...I'm sure some geek is
working on that angle as well if it hasn't been done already, but really, what
real use is it? Perhaps that it may help sell more bottles of some wines
because some zombies need to have someone else tell them what they
should enjoy, and what they should not.
Marco
to. It is precisely because we are human that we have any response to this
stuff at all. We ascribe some meaning to those responses...good, bad, warm,
cold, green, blue, mother-in-law, pumpkin. We are reacting to the vibrations
of the music and making meaning from that reaction. Each of us responds
entirely uniquely to the same set of vibrations/sounds. A machine may react
to the music by recording data, or performing some other programed
response, but it cannot and will not experience any feelings, or ascribe any
meaning to the experience of the music. It will have no desire for more bass.
It will not prefer Bach over Greenday. Are audio manufacturers designing for
machines or for people? I think the latter as their the ones with the wallets.
It's like asking a computer to taste test some wine...I'm sure some geek is
working on that angle as well if it hasn't been done already, but really, what
real use is it? Perhaps that it may help sell more bottles of some wines
because some zombies need to have someone else tell them what they
should enjoy, and what they should not.
Marco