The building of a melody or the evolution of a song, in my experience chord progressions on my guitar, the structural mathemathics of music? I had a friend over the other day with a mellow voice and an ear for music and at the time I was playing my own version of this oldie or that goldie or just off on a tangent of my own and he kept asking me whether I knew this song or that, or anything by this group or that (surprisingly, he knew most of the words to "Chances Are" by Johnny Mathis), but I couldn't satisfy him for the most part because as a rule I straddle my own link to music, and I am invariably exploring an original progression of my own construction. I have no real interest in the musical meanderings of other composers because when I do analyze other arrangements I usually come up with a more pleasing version myself and off I go. Structural mathematics, who needs the math when we can just play the music? If what I do is a science then let it be the study of the "resonant concordance of progressive compatible waveforms within the auditory range". Kinda rolls off the tongue. Mathematics belongs to people who like to play with numbers and symbolic equations. It explains things but doesn't always have ideas that are according to the rules of nature. Being wrong in music is merely striking discordant notes and they can be corrected in real time. Being wrong in mathematics means occasionally having to recant, and admit that what was thought to be true turns out to be false. Mind you, music isn't going to help you win at casino gambling like Mandelbrot theory might. But it makes for a nice break.
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I found through NLP that most people can make visual images and memories in their minds at will, and I cannot!
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You have my sympathies. It is largely through visual imagery that I think. I have had a few too many hard knocks on the left side of my brain, and am by nature a right-brained person anyway and I understand the difference, you're not the first person I've met (one way or the other) who has told me the same thing. The irony is, you'd make the ideal mathematician. Visual imagery allows the storage of a complex idiom or idea into a fleeting symbolic engram. This allows for the recall of memories from the earliest times of one's childhood, and the playing back of a sequence of events like a motion picture "in the back of my mind". Frankly, I don't know how you think. Your writing style has led me to conclude that your perception of a "Theory of Everything" is a statement all about everything that you can regurgitate in one fell swoop after taking one long, deep breath. I know it ain't that.