More Paradigms

The other day while stumbling around on Stumble Upon with my cousin I came across this page which i found very interesting given our current topic in class.
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/25eN7G/informationesthetics.org/documents/scienceMapPrintMockupEd2.jpg

Try it out its very interesting.

Preference over Paradigm

Music is something near and dear to my heart and I have certain ideas of it that i feel are true forever. The idea that different genres of music are a preference not a paradigm, to me is ridiculous. Music is such a general term used for so many different forms of expression with sound. it is almost unbelievable that european classical music and tribal music from indigenous tribes of Australia are both called Music, because they are so contrasting. BUt Music is the general term that in my mind is an expression with sound. These varieties in music though, the different genres i would never say one is written and created in existence because of a persons preference. They are often written for someone to express an emotion such as love or hurt or even expresing a time period or idea like Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture Portraying the downfall of Napoleon. To say a composers preference influenced music more than his life view and his beliefs and morals and true self is a bit ridiculous. If we are thinking even of modern day songwriters, their lyrics and different beats aren't always becasue they like that ryhthm over all else or a certain word is cooler than all the others. They usually would choose something that is the best means of conveying their idea to an audience. THinking across the ages its not a preference to a certain sound that brings it about, it is the lifestyle, beliefs and social system of the time that influences different music types. Aboriginal people here in our province used buffalo skins to make drums becasue that was what was available to them and their society relied on the buffalo for everything, so naturally music came from that as well. The lyrics and ideas spread in modern day songs are often about someones social sitation or the north American ideal that relationships are the most important thing in life. A persons paradigm directly affects them and whatever affects a person is often thing they express. Music is expression, My favorite quote ever is "Music is what feeling sounds like" and it is one hundred percent true.

Emotions are the basis of all knowledge.

I have an actual argument today for why I disagree with that all knowledge comes from emotion. In Biology we learn that chemicals and hormones in our bodies are what cause emotions. To me hearing that emotions are caused and are a result of chemicals in our blood translates from the original statement that knowledge is simply chemical releases in our bodies. Now this might work in some ways, that knowledge comes from within us and that every human being has the potential for knowledge in everything if it comes from those chemicals but i believe humans are more than primal animals that live off of instinct. I believe that the ability we have to reason and see past the ordinary to learn and discover and research means that a basic hormone release will not have that much of an influence on our knowledge. If knowledge is justified True belief, maybe i will be more motivated to research something but even if i have no emotional response to something or less of one than someone else i will still have knowledge. Maybe i won't have as much understanding as that person since they were motivated but I have knowledge anyways. Therefor we can say that emotion brings on knowledge because there are areas of study that happen because of other workings in our brain. Emotion does play a part but does not play the main part. The main part of learning in my opinion is a combination of language, reasoning and perception with little emotion in some subjects and more in others.
Just my opinion.