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(1994) On self-organization, Dordrecht, Springer.
It is argued that purely perceptual or generative accounts of music are inadequate to account for its specificity, and that proper accounts of music must take into account also a more fundamental level of the mind (or of consciousness), a level we term the "aesthetic subsystem". The latter constitutes a domain of universality and of meaning that acts in conjunction with more peripheral aspects of cognition. Suggestive parallels with systems such as biosystems and lasers are used to account for a number of features of musical processes in terms of the model.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-45726-5_18
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Josephson, B. D. , Carpenter, T. (1994)., Music and mind — a theory of aesthetic dynamics, in R. Mishra Kumar, D. Maaß & E. Zwierlein (eds.), On self-organization, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 280-287.
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