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In Polyphonic Minds, Peter Pesic examines the history and significance of polyphonicity - of many-voicedness - in human experience. Pesic presents the emergence of Western polyphony, its flowering, its horizons, and the perspective it offers on our own polyphonic brains. When we listen to polyphonic music, how is it that we can hear several different things at once? How does a single mind experience those things as a unity (a motet, a fugue) rather than an incoherent jumble? Pesic argues that polyphony raises fundamental issues for philosophy, theology, literature, psychology, and neuroscience - all searching for the apparent unity of consciousness in the midst of multiple simultaneous experiences.
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Polyphonic Minds, Peter Pesic
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- 2017
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- Title
- Polyphonic Minds
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Peter Pesic
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Released
- 2017
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN10
- 0262036916
- ISBN13
- 9780262036917
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- Art / Culture, Music, Hobby and Home
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- In Polyphonic Minds, Peter Pesic examines the history and significance of polyphonicity - of many-voicedness - in human experience. Pesic presents the emergence of Western polyphony, its flowering, its horizons, and the perspective it offers on our own polyphonic brains. When we listen to polyphonic music, how is it that we can hear several different things at once? How does a single mind experience those things as a unity (a motet, a fugue) rather than an incoherent jumble? Pesic argues that polyphony raises fundamental issues for philosophy, theology, literature, psychology, and neuroscience - all searching for the apparent unity of consciousness in the midst of multiple simultaneous experiences.