God Bless Chaos - Let's Forget Divine Computational Intelligent Design and Intervention

Music videos and performances are often spectacular and perfectly choreographed, and these performers go on tour and do the same routine just as they'd practiced over and over again, and the crowd is always intrigued. However, one also has to ask why does the human mind so enjoy improvisational music and dance?

Not long ago, I got on this topic with an acquaintance, a European Dancer, fairly well known in his country for a particular type of dance. Once could say he's perhaps, one of the best in his large metropolitan historical European city in that type of dance category. He noted that his best performances were those he'd thrown in some improve into the routine, and has since noted that due to the dynamics of the movements he's better off to allow for those slight changes and modifications.

Having a standard basic performance but changing the movements and making each performance never exactly the same, makes it more natural, flowing, and often much better, and well received by the sold-out crowds. Well, isn't this just the same philosophical argument one might make about perfection and flaws in nature? Who wants to look at a perfect tree, and then the next, exactly the same, and so forth? Would such a perfect world really be intriguing and enjoyable?

Sometimes it is the subtle differences that make the life experience so great. We discussed this for a bit, and I asked him if he ever seen the movie; Tron. You see, in Tron everything is perfect, orderly, actually too perfect, and then as the movie progresses and events occur, and conflicts arise everything gets out of control and the main character, played by Tony Bridges says; "Chaos, smile, this is a good day" - in other words, everything was chaotic and he'd become fed up with order, predictability, Gattaca'ism if you will?

Therefore, I agree that it's more natural to "never entirely be the same" - always variation, it's something I learned in franchising, the need to adapt to regional variation even though our franchise business model was fairly exact, but "exact" doesn't really work in the real world, it's not optimized, actually, it's less efficient, but I think few people get that and perhaps this gets back to schooling, test taking, rote memorization, it's just not right, and I think everyone inherently knows this, and yet, school and real life isn't a Six Sigma Black Belt Manufacturing strategy, the life experience doesn't work that way.

Indeed, I sure hope you've enjoyed this piece of philosophy here today. I ask that you please consider all this and think on it. Then, let me know your thoughts.

Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank. Lance Winslow believes writing 23,500 articles by mid-day on June 23, 2011 is going to be difficult because all the letters on his keyboard are now worn off..

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What Type of Music Do the Most Intelligent People Enjoy? Why It Matters for Musicians

It has often been said that the most intelligent people like certain types of music. Indeed, I guess if I asked you, and you were to take an educated guess, you might say that classical music such as Mozart, or Beethoven would be amongst the type of music enjoyed by the top tier of human IQ. Yes, I think this is the general perception, and I believe it to be correct, although I am not certain for sure. The question is why, I suppose, why is it that classical music is often corresponded to highly intellectual people?

Is it because the people that wrote those symphonies were highly intelligent and creative geniuses themselves, and then only someone else who is of super high intellect would also find this music to be enlightening? Now then, I know many highly intellectual people that enjoy other types of music as well. And even though I really don't care for opera all that much, I realize that many very smart people do enjoy that type of vocal wailing.

In doing the research for this article I read a couple of research papers which seem to indicate that those people who are very good in math, are also very good with musical instruments, and making music. The controlled chaos, and complexity of classical music seems to fit the stereotype of a math genius. Of course that is only one type of intelligence, as there are many. Nevertheless those of high emotional IQ can also appreciate classical music due to its highs and lows and the spaces inbetween.

Of course, composing and playing music is different than listening to it, and it takes a creative genius there is no doubt to produce a good classical piece. After all, many have tried, and failed to impress anyone listening. Still, we have to ask ourselves if the stereotype is correct, and if the highest and most intelligent of our society are more drawn to classical music than other types?

It does appear in the same stereotypical fashion that rap music, if indeed we are willing to call it music, is not necessarily enjoyed by anyone of high intellect, but someone with a standard IQ level might find the beat, alliteration, rhyming, and basic rhythm pleasing to them. Indeed, I hope you will please consider all this and think on it. Perhaps you can relate all this to your own IQ level, and the type of music that you are most drawn to. The final question might be if you listen to let's say classical music, will you become smarter over time? That is to say can one affect the other?

Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank. Lance Winslow believes writing 23,500 articles by mid-day on June 23, 2011 is going to be difficult because all the letters on his keyboard are now worn off..

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