Stephen Downes

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Getting in the groove

Jenny Judge, Aeon, Jan 15, 2018

Does music show that resonance without representation is a form of consciousness? "Human attempts at making sense of the world often involve representing, calculating and deliberating. This isn't the kind of thing that typically goes on in the 55 Bar, nor is it necessarily happening in the Lutheran church just down the block, or on a muddy football pitch in a remote Irish village. But gathering to make music, play games or engage in religious worship are far from being mindless activities. And making sense of the world is not necessarily just a matter of representing it.

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