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Jordan Peterson on Music

"Imagine this. The world is made out of patterns, and those patterns can be interpreted in a very large number of ways, but it's more complicated than that, because your mind is made up of patterns too, and when you take the patterns that are in your mind and you apply them to the world, then what you get is an interaction between the patterns that the world are made out of, and the patterns that your mind are made out of. And that's an even more complex pattern, and it has something to do with the reality as such, but it also has something to do with you. And then I would say, "well the reality is actually in the interaction between the two sets of patterns", and I don't mean that metaphysically, I mean the reality IS in the interactions between the two sets of patterns. And so when I said "when you want to understand what music means, you have to change the way that you think about things", what I mean is that what music speaks of is a way of understanding reality that is not like the way we understand reality, and yet, it's a way that even when merely intimated, which is what music does, it grips people powerfully in a way that cannot be rationally criticized. Lest you say that "the meaning that music speaks of is not real", well then I would say, "it depends on your definition of reality". And you know there are lots of ways to play that game."

Jordan Peterson, Dec. 10 2006

Currently reading :
Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief
By Jordan Peterson
Release date: 24 March, 1999

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