/lit/ - Literature

>>10955431
tonic
FIFTH

tonic
FIFTH

>>10567988
Science is geared towards answering "How" questions not "Why" questions.

For "Who," "What," "When" and "Where" questions we are still, as a species, highly dependent upon our host society's power hierarchies, which are political nightmares, more often than not. Science is also dependent upon social hierarchy and arbitrary symbolic resolution of physiological phenomena. There's a reason we use sanskrit numerals instead of Roman numerals, for instance, but that doesn't mean Sanskrit numerals are necessarily the best or the most clear way to do math. We use Newton's conventions of notation in calculus, even though they are difficult to type in word processors, and so forth. Science is incredibly culturally entrenched and only big dummies imagine otherwise. Our tonal musical notation is based less on the raw pitch of actual sounds and more on the liturgical conventions of medieval monks who dug pythagoras a little too much.