Mark Priest

Music History, Theory, & Composition. Piano. Education. Psychology. Investing. Selectively social.

[Mark Priest @PriMarkMus]

1/ In an ideal musical environment (nurture), youthful songwriters would NATURALLY grow up into legitimate composers. They're now stunted by unnatural emphasis on commercial "songs" to the exclusion of other musical forms and genres. #classicalmusic

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For those who "actually want to learn" from literature and philosophy
https://t.co/FtpwitBtl5

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A "paper musician" is an incomplete musician. They can only play music composed by others. That is, music written down on paper in staff notation. Imagine! There are music schools that no longer teach students to compose original music. Strange.

[Mark Priest @PriMarkMus]

When you learn read music (staff notation) you can read myriads of musical compositions by musicians of any nationality - Italian, German, French, British, Japanese, Brazilian, Ugandan, etc. - music notation is international! #musicfundamentals #pianolessons

[Mark Priest @PriMarkMus]

"Books are dead."

Not true, but people who never read books aren't very lively.

What 📚 have you read lately?

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Consciousness defined
#julianjaynes
https://t.co/cJN28ROlAh

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Hallucinations; or, The Rational History of Apparitions, Visions, Dreams, Ecstasy, Magnetism, and Somnambulism.

By A. Brierre de Boismont.
(Next book in my reading queue; follow along if you like! 😇)
#julianjaynes #bicameralmind #psychology

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@iam_nyakoi Wow, a classic I recall seeing prominently displayed on my dad's reading table. (Of course, I read it, too.)

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We get it: Theory without practice builds nothing.
But "practical" with no Theory builds nonsense. You need both. #pianolessons #musicfundamentals #ProfessionalGrowth
https://t.co/fyaKFnuu06

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AI = Artificial Intelligence
AC = Artificial Consciousness

[Mark Priest @PriMarkMus]

If AI is destined to become supercalifragilisticexpialidociusly more intelligent than humans, what happens when it starts developing (I.e., programming) new, advanced versions of itself on its own, without human interference and special interest bias?

[Mark Priest @PriMarkMus]

“If it’d been a snake it would have bit you!”

Some phenomena in the world are so obvious, yet many people still don't see the cause, unless they get "bit" by them. That's not stupidity. I call it "negative hallucinating," enabled by an inhibited consciousness.

[Mark Priest @PriMarkMus]

"Wake" is a 2009 novel by Robert J. Sawyer, the first part of a trilogy. The story is a fictional account (!) about the Internet becoming self-aware, conscious.

[Mark Priest @PriMarkMus]

Those who work for a better world have stopped sticking halos to the heads of the incompetent with "Crazy Glue."

[Mark Priest @PriMarkMus]

Check out majongdit's essay: Genes vs. Culture! #TikTok https://t.co/PNySM4truS

[Mark Priest @PriMarkMus]

The "Nature vs. Nurture" arguments can be reduced to one thing:
Genetics vs. Culture.

Genetic potential is there, but a culture may not be favoring it, or even sabotaging its development. (E.g., How many professional symphony orchestras are in Africa today?)

[Mark Priest @PriMarkMus]

They flood the world with mediocrity so there's hardly room left for great art. You don't hear a classical composer played in the elevator or lounge of a public place, yet you would easily relax to, say, a Chopin nocturne record. Let's change it. #pianolessons

[Mark Priest @PriMarkMus]

There is no life without music,
and
Without music there is no life.
🎹 🎻

[Mark Priest @PriMarkMus]

We guarantee that our world will never improve by following and supporting those who only tell us what we want to hear.

[Mark Priest @PriMarkMus]

Check out majongdit's video! #TikTok https://t.co/JJp0ksw3Ra

[Mark Priest @PriMarkMus]

@Censored4sure They'll be pushing carrots now 🥕 . (Vitamin A from beta carotene). Watch Gilligan's Island and learn a lot.