From: jeffrey E. <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2016 5:07 PM To: Ed Boyden Subject: Re: i would ask you to think about music and melody, =AO i will send you a copy of what i sent to chomsky =AO i think the concept of harmonies, inter and intra-actions ,=of a ensemble of elements is a complex problem. a melody=is more than a collection of notes. it has an inter relation b=sed on key, rhythms, and progessions as well as variations on a them=. A series of notes like a series of neurona= firings wont tell much, it needs to be combined into a =oherent shape. it is easy for a novice to pick out=a wrong note in a melody heard for the first time. a disjointe=ness. . the smooth shapes have spikes that dont belong.=C2 . its the ensemble of neurons, firing rates=times and interactions that may be able to be mapped , I have =o idea, . algebraic geometry, algebrai= toplogy, ( surfaces rather than shapes ) , skype =nytime you like today I conducted an experiment e=couraged by Noam's wholly justified aggressive and detailed dire=tives to joscha.. joshcha foc=sed on layers being developed in the brain . the timing for the deve=opment of each layer being different per species. I postulate that music might be a frosted window into that structure. symphonies begin with their first "=layer " a theme. in fact , there might be more than one theme in the first layer , =AO , the second part of symphonic form is the complex development stage= where those themes are inverted, deconstructed , reconstructed =tc ,and the development stage takes the most time . in =the conclusion of the symphonic form the recapitulation of all that has come b=fore it forms a " phenenoma of the piece " a whole ,made up of its smaller concepts . =C2 As opposed to listening to music to record which neuron is firing, as mo=t musciolgists attempt . I propose that the music may be the audible result =f those neurons firing, made possible by a select few who would attempt=20 t