FavouriteSongs/MusicThatYouAssociateWithASpecificEventPeriodSignificantPersonAnd/OrPlace?

Yeah, you and me both buddy. Trust me!

Steven, has Sagan anything to say on people challenging the linearity of time?

I just had the most fascinating discussion on the subject: Knowledge Management is a staple of (mainly) IT companies...and one that's been baffling them for years (leading, unfortunately, to a serious slump in its perpetration): the main cause, I found out, is that so very few people have an actual inkling how to manage knowledge, and that goes directly back to not being able to define knowledge or to understand (or come to an agreement) what makes knowledge knowledge, and how it's acquired.

In practice what happens is that basically just reams and reams of paper get saved, that nobody ever looks at. A little insight in epistemology wouldn't go amiss at all in many companies.

It's not IT management.
It's knowledge management.
It's all about how to capture, organize and perpetrate acquired knowledge (and knowledge to be acquired). But to do that, obviously you need to know what knowledge is.

I.T. isn't just about wires and buttons and stuff: it's information technology: it's all about making information available and knowledge accessible. And to do that most efficiently and effectively, you need to understand what knowledge and information are, how it is acquired, and how it is transferred.

That's where epistemology comes in.
To be able to make the proper information and knowledge available (both externally, to -say- a customer, as a product, as well as internally in processes and structures), you need to know what it is you want to know (and how you know it). How could anyone hope to do proper knowledge management if the very nature of knowledge escapes them? (That's why I said that -unfortunately- most knowledge management initiatives end up just being repositories of experience: process papers, analyses, reports on best practises, et cetera)

Obviously knowledge management isn't limited to the IT sector. It's just the one I have most experience in, and the one where -arguably- the need for it is greatest.

And i already had 1 panadol cause of you not having had a coffee yet.

Sorry, D.

I'll break for a three-martini early lunch.


I don't think I did a very good job explaining anyway.


(Aside from the fact we're going insanely off-topic, and Timmer is gonna kill me for ruining what actually is a really great thread (with a really bad title))

So anyway, back on-topic.
I guess everyone has these songs or tracks of pieces of music that they associate with events and people in the past. Sometimes, obviously, these are less happy events (illness, a lost love, that sort of thing), and once said music comes on, you are reminded of that situation.

However, do you actually also avoid such music? To maybe avoid that memory and its associated emotions?

To me music is the second strongest emotional trigger (as with many people, the sense of smell is number one). I'm slightly embarrassed to confess there are pieces of music -both good, which is a shame, AND bad- I avoid.

I'll follow up with an example later.
I was just wondering if this was something people recognised, or not at all?

You all made my early morning.

When I think about my first classical concert I recall Peter and the Wolf.

I am more interested in ethics and aesthetics myself

Though philosophy is VERRRRY interesting.

Funny you say that. Epistemology made me less anti-religious and it put science more in a relative context.

Too bad we didn't start this in the humanoria topic... we could still do that.

Yes it is. I like how it contains all aspects of life. As a life view teacher there is a lot of emphasis on ethics and aesthetics. But also metaphysics and ontology when you're studying religion and just nature of existance. And, compared to some of my colleagues, I am very rational. I would like to study logic as well. I took Russell's barber paradox to school with me and the Cretenzer paradox by Epimenides, to see how 11-12 year olds would respond to it. It was a lot of fun. Some smart asses in that group for sure.


You know, some people think philosophy is a supportive science to other sciences. And some think it is the mother of all sciences. And some say it's somewhere between science and theology. I really like the 'uiteindelijkheidsoptiek' (?) of it, opposed to just one aspect of life, like in science.

To go back on topic (sorry), I really try to play music that triggers something, because most of my music does nothing for me lately unfortunately... it's time for something new! I think I should watch more movies perhaps. That's how my film music thing started, as something that connected to the movie.

Gladiator? Conan? Time Machine? Chicken Run? Fire?

NOTHING?




Or maybe even completely different types of music?
Some classical? World music?
Heavy metal?