good intentions

["Robert Eberwein" <robert_eberwein@hotmail.com>]

>>They know that banging someone with a
>>  pipe doesn't become music until you add good intention.
>
Crossover [among others] asks,
>What constitutes "good" intention?

Okay.

The thread began with the assertion that all is perception [what they 
meant-btw- was *all is perspective*- which is *true*]. It was hinted that 
there is no *good* nor *bad*, but thinking makes it so.

I wanted to play on how *perception* actually works. We *hear* what we 
*attend* to--- well, actually, we hear all kinds of things, but that which 
we *intentionally* hear is different [we all have opinions and ideas about 
this, whether biological, philosophical or spiritual]. Someone had said 
that 
music was *just vibrations of atoms*. I wanted to suggest that that is 
about 
as close as saying, *an airplane crash is just material, reshaping*. Not 
if 
your wife was on there. And from who's perspective is it *just* re-shaping 
material???

So... My point [ahem. need coffee]: If, while beating someone with a pipe, 
there happen to be noises [vibrations]- - - that doesn't make it music. If 
you [or a bystander] notice that the thuds and pops have a rhythmic 
quality- 
- - that still isn't music. But if you begin to modify your approach, in 
order to enhance the musical qualities: then, it's music. Your *intention* 
had to change [your perception and perspective can stay the same]. 
Further, 
you had to have a *constructive* [a wish to build, etc] intention.

[I regret the metaphor. It's one of those, best not elaborated on]

One can not make music by *accident* [unintentionally]. You can program a 
computer [intention]. You can throw bricks at pianos. But no one ever made 
music by accident. Not once. At some point the intention was there. Not 
only 
must you have the *intention* to make music, but it must be 
constructive/benevolent[with the aim to communicate with as little static 
as 
possible]/harmonic [by any definition]/cooperative [of the 
elements/creator/listener]: in other words: *Good* *Intended*...[as 
opposed 
to chaos/noise/pain/damage/rendering auseinander].

Of course this brings into question what makes apperception different from 
perception--- what makes attention different from intention, etc.

Even I am [almost] smart enough to know that this isn't the place to 
speculate further...


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