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Sure enough. It certainly seems that beliefs in perpetually static "knowledge" can easily rule out experiential learning....an unfortunate, but sadly common syndrome. Obviously not all by any means, but many of us who are techy/science oriented do tend to attach to our knowledge as too static, contributing a little too easily to being "blinded" by our "knowledge." Associated, when devoted to what we "know" as the whole and only truth, we often tend to be quite adamant in expressing it.
The sad part fo me: those of us who are less confident in our "knowledge," we often subconsciously defer to people who appear to be "authorities," inadvertently adopting all, or parts, of authoritative ideologies whether true to reality or not. And adopting static beliefs that are not fully real, impedes creative exploration, reducing the possibilities for experiential knowledge.
Obviously this is not just techy folks....many of us, including many seasoned audiophiles, "attach" to what we know as "static fact," these same static beliefs often holding us back from the potential of improving our musical experience. A human syndrome really, it seems most all of us suffer from this tragedy of belief = knowledge to various degrees.
The oddest thing to me is that perpetually "static" does not conform with nature.
When all in nature, including each of us, our cells, organs, our brains.... are in a steady state of transformation, then why not thought and knowledge? Being in a state of transformation ourselves, and being parts of a world that is in a constant state of transformation, how can perpetually static "knowledge" legitimately exist?
But many of us strongly "believe" things derived from "learning" from within a limited knowledge base. And probably worse, by hearing something enough times, it can start to seem real to us.
Especially disturbing to me, partial information, conveyed as total information, empowers habitual skepticism about anything less defined from within the limitations of science and what is "known" at any given time in history. Yet science and education are designed to seek to expand "the knowledge!" How can we expand perpetually static knowledge?
Finally, adamantly expressed skepticism, if believed, holds many, in audio (and elsewhere), back from open-minded experiences and developing personal discernment.
Completing the circle, without open-minded exploration, we limit our experiential learning potential, leaving our knowledge less refined than it could be. For audio, not trusting and cultivating our discernment through experience, can obviously limit potential for more and more complete musical experiences.
Alternately, if we are open minded, have a revealing system, and have the thirst to refine our perceptive and discernment abilities, we experience many things that are difficult to fully, or sometimes, even partially quantify..... things that can notably enhance musical immersion, but can be difficult to explain.
What a trap parts of our human condition can be!
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