<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14pt"><div><span>I wouldn't equate imagining with generating, if generating is meant to refer to something like 'free will.' In a classic behavioural account, the imagining in the experiment by Nozaradan et al. would be construed as a response to a stimulus, where the stimulus consisted of the instructions given to the participants (e.g., imagine accents on every 3rd tone) and </span>the tones they actually heard.</div><div><br></div><div>Jay Rahn, York University (Toronto)</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><div style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><hr size="1"><b><span
style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Michael Morse <mwmorse@bell.net><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> jayrahn@rogers.com; smt-talk@lists.societymusictheory.org<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, November 7, 2011 10:17:25 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> RE: [Smt-talk] digression: pulse & Pieces with improvisatory openings<br></font><br><div id="yiv364011310">
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Thanks, Jay, for this interesting and germane citation. If I understand the data correctly, it supports my contention that pulse is not a quintessentially matter of perception. Rather, the data suggest the more cautious thesis that perceived impulse and imagined pulse transpire in different regions of the brain--which is of course enough prima facie to make the point that the pulse phenomenon is not (necessarily) primarily rooted in the perception of external stimuli.<br><br>I think this study also suggests that pulse may not be so much a neurological or even psychological matter, but an epistemological question. At the very least, the generative capacity and socially shared & shareable quality are its core; arguably, these are not neurological concepts, although neurological patterning is involved. Metaphysics has been getting a bad rap for more than a century, mostly with good reason. It's rather nostalgic to find an issue where it may be of some
use!<br><br>MW Morse<br>Trent University<br>Peterborough, Oshawa<br> </div></div>
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