Sunday, December 6, 2015

Perception

I was just thinking, and a random thought just popped into my mind, as random thoughts often do. I was think about how much our perception of things changes the way we think of them, and the example I thought of was this. What if There was a concert, let's have them play something famous like Beethoven's fifth symphony. Instead of being able to see the musicians, they are sitting behind the curtain. Then the conductor walks out onto the stage in front of the curtain and tells you that the orchestra will be performing Beethoven's fifth symphony, but naked. After saying this, he goes behind the curtain and the music begins. Regardless of whether the musicians are naked or not, your perception of the music changes, because it's weird. I'm not really sure if it would actually change how the music sounded to you, but I think it would be a cool experiment.

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