How good are the best musical imaginations? Can a trained musician, swiftly reading a score, tell just how … - Daniel Dennett

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I think the meaning of the universe is bound up with the egg. . . . I am fed up with the meaning of the universe. Everything starts in the egg and ends in death. I think it's called 'the heartbreak at the heart of things. ' But then perhaps our very mortality is an egg and at the moment of death our souls will emerge like damp chicks.

Daniel Dennett

How good are the best musical imaginations? Can a trained musician, swiftly reading a score, tell just how that voicing of dissonant oboes and flutes over the massed strings will sound?

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