Erudition

Seig

Emelle said:

Music allows us to say the unsayable.  All of us could tell just from listening to a piece of music where it falls on the emotional spectrum, and that understanding has been encoded in us from a young age (the theory behind that is pretty fascinating).  

Can you touch base on this theory?

 

Emelle

http://www.futurity.org/science-technology/our-brains-learn-to-love-musics-harmony/

Edhain

Right now I'm interested in entropy in the universe and what it means in our daily lives. Somebody told me that because all planets die eventually we shouldn't try to conserve ours. Thoughts?

Esper

While I haven't really thought about the consequences of our daily lives, I do think that anxiety of entropy is more common than you might think.  Because I seem incapable of framing a discussion outside of the context of literature, here's a short story roughly related to how entropy might influence day to day action.  It's actually the one that got me into Aasimov, and it's about the ultimate heat death of the universe.

http://www.thrivenotes.com/the-last-question/

Esper

Also I apologize for the horrible formatting of that post

Edhain

That was a really good story. I've got the universal death/rebirth thing on my mind too, but I didn't think of it as something that would happen as a result of a supercomputer fusing with all mankind to take on the role of God. Pretty inventive...