Steve Smith wrote at 10/14/2013 08:37 PM:
I can't say I've ever done math myself, despite a degree in it and 30 years of a wide range of applications of it. On a good day I feel I can read and follow and appreciate good math, but sadly I never found myself rising to a level of actually doing any. I think I was both supported and ruined by computers in that they let me "do algorithms" in the way I think I always imagined I would "do math".
This depends, of course, on what you mean by "math". The kind I sometimes get engrossed in ends up pure symbol manipulation. I don't really play any instruments. But I've dabbled enough to get the same (very similar) feeling as when "doing math". It ends up being a kind of meditation, embracing the Id. As with math, I've never achieved any objectives with music. But I do have a lot of fun in those "emergent" groups where anyone's welcome to join in. There tends to be mostly drums. But there's always a subset of people with good improvising instruments like the sax, trumpet, flute, trombone, etc. to provide an ethereal fluidity that floats and bounces atop the more -urgic drums. It gets interesting when the group crosses the 10-15 participant threshold. I've found that objective-oriented musicians either don't grok or are irritated by those groups. And, I admit that if you're not capable of sedating your ego, there's plenty to get upset about. I have yet to attend a psytrance rave. But I suspect they lead to a similar state, but perhaps more kinesthetic.
What about engineering building materials *from* mushrooms <http://www.ecovativedesign.com/products-and-applications/insulation/>? Or did you say you hoped you would be "on mushrooms"?
That's fantastic! Thanks for that link. -- ⇒⇐ glen e. p. ropella Yesterday's for mice and gods.
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