Well, not really. You’re asserting music that you have a greater than negligible inferential distance to is a fraudulent field, and you’re comparing it to a field you already consider fraudulent.
As such: the difference is that music is about aesthetics, not about the qualities of claimed supernatural beings. And in art, there is such a thing as inferential distance. Long post on the subject here. A given piece of art is created in a time, place and culture, to press the buttons in people’s heads, preferably starting with those of the artist. You will appreciate it more if you learn more about the time, place and culture, right down to the inside of the artist’s head as far as that can be ascertained, thus getting closer to the place in inference space of its birth.
Theology doesn’t, as far as I know, make the existence of God more believable if you know more of it; however, it is possible to learn about the cultural reference point for a piece of art and appreciate more what the artist was doing.
*redefines theology as the study of aesthetic matter*
You don’t get away that easily. If your entire argument rests on, “I’ve chosen to apply this symbol, this way” then I think we’re done here.
Well, not really. You’re asserting music that you have a greater than negligible inferential distance to is a fraudulent field, and you’re comparing it to a field you already consider fraudulent.
As such: the difference is that music is about aesthetics, not about the qualities of claimed supernatural beings. And in art, there is such a thing as inferential distance. Long post on the subject here. A given piece of art is created in a time, place and culture, to press the buttons in people’s heads, preferably starting with those of the artist. You will appreciate it more if you learn more about the time, place and culture, right down to the inside of the artist’s head as far as that can be ascertained, thus getting closer to the place in inference space of its birth.
Theology doesn’t, as far as I know, make the existence of God more believable if you know more of it; however, it is possible to learn about the cultural reference point for a piece of art and appreciate more what the artist was doing.