For someone with my “brain type” music is obvious bad.
OK, sure.
It drains attention while giving nothing back.
IMO, this is confabulation. Maybe it’s your true rejection, but I think it’s much more probable (80%ish?) that your brain randomly came up with this story while trying to figure out why you dislike music. The part of your brain that generates reasons doesn’t necessarily have access to the part of your brain that generates likes/dislikes.
The story my brain came up with along time ago when I was a teenager was that I was too intelligent to enjoy music or other people were just pretending to enjoy it. (I could have used LW back then.)
I was wondering whether you have hearing issues* but that doesn’t sound like it. Do you enjoy visual art?
*I like music, but not nearly as much as most people. A recent online test suggests that I don’t hear low pitches as well as most people. Of course, the problem there might be with my computer speakers rather than my ears, but it might be a clue.
My hearing has always tested as fine. I like some visual art, although I’m well below average in this. I do get pleasure in seeing beautiful things. I’ve never experienced music as beautiful and to my mind music being beautiful seems like a category error.
My guess is that you just don’t make an emotional connection to music. It’s possible that moving to music would eventually make a connection, but this is a very tentative guess.
Can you tell people’s emotional state from their voices?
I dislike the music as it comes out from my father’s car stereo because he sets the equalizer to amplify the high pitches too much for my tastes. I used to wonder why he would do that, then I remembered that the ability to hear high pitches declines with age.
What is it that you expect to get back that you do not? Whatever it is probably reduces down to the relative positions of certain neurotransmitters, the isovariable interpersonal variance of which few others are likely to be able to explain.
What makes you think it isn’t in that category for you?
For someone with my “brain type” music is obvious bad. It drains attention while giving nothing back.
OK, sure.
IMO, this is confabulation. Maybe it’s your true rejection, but I think it’s much more probable (80%ish?) that your brain randomly came up with this story while trying to figure out why you dislike music. The part of your brain that generates reasons doesn’t necessarily have access to the part of your brain that generates likes/dislikes.
The story my brain came up with along time ago when I was a teenager was that I was too intelligent to enjoy music or other people were just pretending to enjoy it. (I could have used LW back then.)
I think your new story is less harmful but probably equally true. :)
So, uh, how about when you are just listening to music?
(‘I hate novels, they totally drain my attention and all I get back is the experience of reading novels.’)
I’ve tried just listening and I don’t enjoy it.
Then ‘drains attention’ was not a relevant fact.
It was relevant but not necessary as to why I don’t like music.
Are you sure you’re not really “Marvin” the depressed Robot?
I’m not depressed. Some things in life give me tremendous pleasure. I enjoy TV, movies, book, and video games.
Life. Don’t talk to me about life. -Marvin
I was wondering whether you have hearing issues* but that doesn’t sound like it. Do you enjoy visual art?
*I like music, but not nearly as much as most people. A recent online test suggests that I don’t hear low pitches as well as most people. Of course, the problem there might be with my computer speakers rather than my ears, but it might be a clue.
My hearing has always tested as fine. I like some visual art, although I’m well below average in this. I do get pleasure in seeing beautiful things. I’ve never experienced music as beautiful and to my mind music being beautiful seems like a category error.
Do you enjoy movies? Does the background score seem distracting?
Yes and I do dislike background scores.
My guess is that you just don’t make an emotional connection to music. It’s possible that moving to music would eventually make a connection, but this is a very tentative guess.
Can you tell people’s emotional state from their voices?
I dislike the music as it comes out from my father’s car stereo because he sets the equalizer to amplify the high pitches too much for my tastes. I used to wonder why he would do that, then I remembered that the ability to hear high pitches declines with age.
What is it that you expect to get back that you do not? Whatever it is probably reduces down to the relative positions of certain neurotransmitters, the isovariable interpersonal variance of which few others are likely to be able to explain.