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Leibniz and musical pleasure

October 29, 2010 at 4:55 PM

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I ran across a quote attributed to the mathematician/philosopher Leibniz: “Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.”

I find that I disagree with this in the sense that I would never have thought to put it this way, but find it interesting for the same reason. Thought I'd see how you all felt about it.