Tuesday, November 12, 2013
System shutdown
Hey guys! I'm going to have to stop posting for about a month because of university activities (lots of studying + a trip to Paris :) ). Next expected post around December 19. Be good! Cheers.
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
Humming Someone Else's Tune
Ok so this is me and my buddy, doing some canoeing on the beautiful Danube, at Szigetköz.
And I've got my cool humming business going on - I'm humming some rad tunes (at least I thought so). Well anyway, it came to my mind, that the tunes I'm humming - these melodies, are probably melodies that I've heard before. I'm humming these exact notes in this exact order, because I find it to be harmonic.. but the reason I find it harmonic is probably because I've heard that composition of notes sometime, somewhere before!
And it really started bugging me - can I actually make a new tune? Or am I secretly being influenced by my previous experiences with music - and my subconscious self is generating "new" tunes out of the tunes I've already heard in my life?
I am an optimist, and I essentially believe that I am very much influenced by my previous acoustic experiences, but I am capable of generating new music.
But even if I do... even if I create something that's new for me - it probably exists already! Seriously, there's only so many tunes that sound good to people, and there are so insanely much people. There's more than 7 billion of us only today - and that's not counting those who once lived and are now dead. And all these people live on the same Earth, hearing the same natural sounds, getting the same acoustic impressions, and many of them getting the same cultural impressions.
Well it really makes me think that if you try to hum something new... it probably won't work - probably someone already felt like humming that. Which is Ok, I guess; I mean like who cares if someone, 1000 years ago, hummed the same tune?
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| Just joking - it's not really me, not my buddy, and not Szigetköz |
And I've got my cool humming business going on - I'm humming some rad tunes (at least I thought so). Well anyway, it came to my mind, that the tunes I'm humming - these melodies, are probably melodies that I've heard before. I'm humming these exact notes in this exact order, because I find it to be harmonic.. but the reason I find it harmonic is probably because I've heard that composition of notes sometime, somewhere before!
And it really started bugging me - can I actually make a new tune? Or am I secretly being influenced by my previous experiences with music - and my subconscious self is generating "new" tunes out of the tunes I've already heard in my life?
I am an optimist, and I essentially believe that I am very much influenced by my previous acoustic experiences, but I am capable of generating new music.
But even if I do... even if I create something that's new for me - it probably exists already! Seriously, there's only so many tunes that sound good to people, and there are so insanely much people. There's more than 7 billion of us only today - and that's not counting those who once lived and are now dead. And all these people live on the same Earth, hearing the same natural sounds, getting the same acoustic impressions, and many of them getting the same cultural impressions.
Well it really makes me think that if you try to hum something new... it probably won't work - probably someone already felt like humming that. Which is Ok, I guess; I mean like who cares if someone, 1000 years ago, hummed the same tune?
Friday, November 1, 2013
No Time Ever
It's a question that came to my mind a few years ago, and it seemed at first only as a game of thought... but it really gives a different perspective on reality.
Time seems to be a non-existent thing - it is a valid concept, but it does not exist in itself, not like everyday objects in any case.
Let's start by noticing that everything we think is the passing of time is only the movement of objects relative to each other.
What?
Yes. When you read a clock, you are only reading where the hands of the clock are. If you wait, then the hands turn slowly. In this case the passing of time is only realized by the movement of the hands of the clock.
You might say that this is just a specific example, and it's not good because watches and clocks were designed to move in such a way ~ in other words they only measure time.
But what isn't "only" a measurement of time? We have minutes and hours and months and years passing - each of these is connected to the movement of objects - the rotation of a hand on a clock or the Earth revolving around the Sun!
So here's what I think: there is no such thing as time - we are all objects moving around in the forever existing present. What does this mean? There is no past, there is no future - there is no "time-path" that we are moving along. There is no "flow of time". There is no time-travel and there is no rewinding time. Because there is only a constant present, and we are always rearranging everything in that present.
So I say that we are objects, moving relative to one another and we can only move as fast or as slow in space as our "moving-ness" allows us - in other words our mass. It is our mass that determines how we can move around in the forever-present.
Time is only a parameter that helps us get a common grasp on all this moving around. In physics, the concept of "time" was never defined - Newton defined just about everything in his Principia, except for "time" - he only wrote that the concept of time is trivial, it does not need to be defined.
p.s.: Babies and children don't have a concept of time - they slowly start learning what time is through experience. You can not tell children that they should wait an hour for something - it is incomprehensible for them - you must tell them that they have to wait until the small hand on the clock goes around completely.
Time seems to be a non-existent thing - it is a valid concept, but it does not exist in itself, not like everyday objects in any case.
Let's start by noticing that everything we think is the passing of time is only the movement of objects relative to each other.
What?
Yes. When you read a clock, you are only reading where the hands of the clock are. If you wait, then the hands turn slowly. In this case the passing of time is only realized by the movement of the hands of the clock.
You might say that this is just a specific example, and it's not good because watches and clocks were designed to move in such a way ~ in other words they only measure time.
But what isn't "only" a measurement of time? We have minutes and hours and months and years passing - each of these is connected to the movement of objects - the rotation of a hand on a clock or the Earth revolving around the Sun!
So here's what I think: there is no such thing as time - we are all objects moving around in the forever existing present. What does this mean? There is no past, there is no future - there is no "time-path" that we are moving along. There is no "flow of time". There is no time-travel and there is no rewinding time. Because there is only a constant present, and we are always rearranging everything in that present.
So I say that we are objects, moving relative to one another and we can only move as fast or as slow in space as our "moving-ness" allows us - in other words our mass. It is our mass that determines how we can move around in the forever-present.
Time is only a parameter that helps us get a common grasp on all this moving around. In physics, the concept of "time" was never defined - Newton defined just about everything in his Principia, except for "time" - he only wrote that the concept of time is trivial, it does not need to be defined.
p.s.: Babies and children don't have a concept of time - they slowly start learning what time is through experience. You can not tell children that they should wait an hour for something - it is incomprehensible for them - you must tell them that they have to wait until the small hand on the clock goes around completely.
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