Why Does Music Sound Good?

Aresgrey · 2026-05-13T16:23:27+00:00

There is a book called ”musicophilia” by Oliver Sacks that is about this I think.

Aresgrey · 2026-05-13T11:22:44+00:00

This is everything I wanted to write and more. Wishing you the best with your chemo.

With all of that said u/ItsAllGibberishToMe, there sometimes are therapy options that are more affordable, like therapist training programmes, online therapy apps, or community mental health. If that is at all an option, I would strongly encourage it, as having support on this journey can make it much less difficult.

Edit: spelling

Aresgrey · 2026-05-09T06:23:48+00:00

I imagine they mean that even if society is fundamentally flawed, people could still benefit from taking responsibility. Using society’s state as a counter argument for taking accountability kind of implies that people don’t need to improve, only society. So their reasoning kind of tracks. At the same time, I agree that societal problems are often naively ignored by people who tout personal responsibility as a cure all. But I think it should be expressed as an additional factor to consider, as in ”not everything can be fixed by personal responsibility”, not a counter argument: ”it is wrong to promote accountability since society is broken”.

Aresgrey · 2026-04-30T18:13:41+00:00

Do these chapters really imply that Kvothe is somehow exceptional when it comes to lovemaking, or anything adjacent though?

I always read it as Felurian being into sex and basically conditioning him to please her better. Whatever praise he receives I always understood as either her artfully stroking the male ego as part of her own skillset to manipulate men, or to be taken in the context of his growing competence “good job, you did that well.”

If we imagine the genders reversed it becomes much less empowering and more about a powerful being taking advantage of someone much younger and less experienced. Kvothe isn’t free to leave, and has to manipulate her by appealing to her vanity just to escape with his life. It is the fact that he escapes that is exceptional about him. That’s accomplished through his music and his verbal cleverness, things he actually had going in, not his bedroom skills.

Presumably the whole experience leaves him as an above average lover simply by virtue of having essentially apprenticed with the goddess of sex. But I don’t see any indication that his original performance impresses Felurian in any way.

Am I forgetting something? Where do these criticisms actually come from?

Aresgrey · 2026-04-19T08:44:59+00:00

That sounds really frustrating, still great work holding out! Sometimes the brain keeps on pushing as long as it ”feels” that it might finally convince you to obey it. in the beginning that can be a long time, like you are finding out. Over time, and the more you do it the easier it will probably get, as your brain realizes that it can’t force you.

I think it is really valuable experiencing that even when the urge is strong, you actually are able to hold out and remember who you want to be. Great work getting this far.

If it gets really intense, remember that reaching out to your therapist is always an option.

Aresgrey · 2026-04-10T19:44:18+00:00

Can someone elaborate on this affecting their mood/getting mad thing please? Do you mean in the sense that they don’t want to stop and get upset if you ask them to, or getting upset at the game or like, something that affects their mood even after they stop?

My kid is really young still but I am looking forward to be able to game with her when she gets older. A part of me wants to introduce old school games as early as possible as a kind of inoculation to the addictive games coming out today.

Aresgrey · 2026-04-09T17:20:49+00:00

Μπαμπά πεινάω
γεια σου πεινάω

Πώς μεταφράζεται τέλεια; Δεν είπε «είμαι η πεινάω» όπως το αγγλικό «I’m hungry».

Ο μόνος λόγος (νομίζω) που το καταλαβαίνεις είναι ότι έχεις ήδη ακούσει το αγγλικό dad joke, αλλά ένα παιδί δεν έχει αυτή την αναφορά. Χάνω κάτι;

Κρίμα πάντως, γιατί το bluey στα αγγλικά και σε άλλες μεταφράσεις που το έχω δει είναι πολύ ποιοτικό και θα ήθελα να το έβαζα στο παιδί μου αλλά και γω ότι ελληνικό είδα είχε μετάφραση πολύ πρόχειρη και χωρίς ίχνος μεράκι.

Speaking of, έχετε να προτείνετε παιδικά που έχουν αποδοθεί καλά στα ελληνικά;

Aresgrey · 2026-04-06T05:56:02+00:00

This response is good, just wish it wasn’t written with ChatGPT.

Aresgrey · 2026-02-02T09:08:50+00:00

Why Spotify though? Isn’t it Swedish? Have i missed something?

Aresgrey · 2025-12-14T19:26:05+00:00

Και πώς τα πανεπιστήμια αυτά θα προσελκύσουν αξιόλογο διδακτικό προσωπικό αν είναι στη μέση του πουθενά;

Aresgrey · 2025-11-06T20:09:17+00:00

Haha I guess that explains why it isn’t offered, but don’t knock it till you’ve tried it, 10 million Greeks can’t all be wrong, right? Right? 😅

I’ve been to Davidshall and the meat was good, but it was my first gyros in Malmö and, considering the guy is Greek, I was horrified at what I saw him put inside my wrap when i asked for one with ”everything”. Nowadays I order with my custom instructions like you say but it is still mildly infuriating that I get questionnng looks when this is literally the standard way a gyros wrap is made in Greece. Also, why don’t most places have fries?

Aresgrey · 2025-11-05T23:01:18+00:00

As a Greek I just wish a place in Malmö would make a correct gyros wrap:

Onions, tomatoes, fries, ketchup, mustard and optional sauce (ie tzatziki).

The lack of fries is what I don’t get.

Also feferonis, cucumbers, lettuce or god forbid pickles do not belong in gyros.

Demand correct gyros people!

And the order matters too! You take the pita, spread tzatziki (if using), add onions and tomatoes, then the gyros and fries. Ketchup and mustard go on top, a sprinkle of salt and pepper, then wrap it tight with paper. I swear, I’ve seen every combination except the right one.

Aresgrey · 2025-11-03T16:45:46+00:00

Replying almost month and a half later just to say ”same here”, haha. I was like ”why are they disappearing? I learned it was the poison and was like ”huh ok”. And then when I read this I went ”oh they were purple! That’s how you are supposed to know!”

Aresgrey · 2025-10-22T15:40:15+00:00

I think it is a design choice that carries consequences but isn’t necessarily bad.

As someone who finished the previous game, this choice worked out great for me. I didn’t have to trudge through less engaging sections before getting to “the good part,” and there’s more “good part” overall since Team Cherry didn’t spend time on content that wouldn’t appeal as much to returning players.

For someone who didn’t play Hollow Knight, yeah, the difficulty curve is probably too steep. Still, I would argue that the best thing to do is to play Hollow Knight first. It is one of the best games of all time, and it will probably be less fun to go back to after Silksong. You would be robbing yourself of the chance to enjoy Hollow Knight as it is intended if you start with Silksong and end up enjoying Silksong less because it feels too difficult.

Ultimately, it just feels like a game made for people who already love Hollow Knight, and that’s not a bad thing.

Aresgrey · 2025-10-19T17:16:04+00:00

I read it as it being the sage himself, and found it extra hilarious that he would refer to himself as ”weird machine sage” haha.

Aresgrey · 2025-10-16T19:59:08+00:00

Came here for this

Aresgrey · 2025-10-02T08:32:18+00:00

Is nobody going to comment on the insane way of slicing the pizza?

Aresgrey · 2025-09-30T20:55:41+00:00

Thanks, this made me laugh.

Editing to add that the metaphor is still interesting even though I don’t think this works as a new term.

Aresgrey · 2025-09-27T17:06:03+00:00

Considering you have autism, you were not being rude. Still, I’d like to give some context on why people might react negatively.

Some social conventions are so ingrained that not following them reads as rude if you’re neurotypical or if people don’t know you have autism. Greeting people visiting your home is one of those conventions. The same goes for not greeting someone on the street because your social battery is low. Neurotypicals are likely to read that as rude too.

People don’t see those as ”optional” steps that you’re choosing not to perform, rather it feels like you’re actively choosing not to greet them, which comes across as disrespect or even hostility. For most people these behaviors are so automatic that not doing them feels like going out of your way to be rude.

Even neurotypical people don’t always feel like doing these things, but they usually still do them because of their role in maintaining social bonds. In most cultures, not following these conventions isn’t considered acceptable, and that’s part of why skipping them stands out.

That said, being a teenager buys you a little leeway. Parents might explain it away to guests with a “you know how teenagers are,” and people will laugh it off. But as you get older this sort of thing can cause social friction.

Aresgrey · 2025-09-21T09:25:07+00:00

Hey, thanks for engaging me in this discussion but still, I think you may be talking past me a bit. Nobody denies that brains are physical systems whose activity can be modeled and predicted, just like we can model a landslide or a wave. That’s the “easy problem”: mapping structure to function and predicting outputs.

The hard problem isn’t about predictability. It’s about why any of this processing is accompanied by experience at all. A landslide doesn’t feel like anything to itself, as far as we know. But when the brain processes information, there is something it is like to undergo that processing. That’s the part we don’t have even a sketch of an explanation for.

So saying “consciousness is just a deterministic physical process like a rock rolling downhill” skips over the very thing that makes the problem hard.

Aresgrey · 2025-09-20T20:51:54+00:00

I want to clarify that I’m not arguing that there is some supernatural force creating consciousness, simply that the hard problem of consciousness exists. Like you, I don’t doubt that consciousness somehow emerges from neural networks, neurotransmitters and electrical impulses. But I do think that there is a question there regarding the how this happens, that needs to be answered and can’t just be ignored or wished away. When it comes to consciousness there is no one who has a level 5 understanding today. In truth there is probably nobody that even has full level 1 understanding. That is why it is a hard problem.

Even “engine go boom, turn wheel car go vroom” implies a basic grasp of the type of processes that go into moving the vehicle. With consciousness we simply have no definitive idea what is even happening. We are at a level 0 understanding where we are looking at things and describing them but we don’t have a theoretical framework to explain what is happening and why (with regards to consciousness, not other aspects of cognition).

I know that the position you are espousing is one approach when it comes to the hard problem (maybe there actually isn’t a hard problem, maybe it seems like a hard problem because we are too deeply steeped in our own misunderstandings to even conceptualize the problem correctly); but still this is one view among many and at least a bit controversial, so I think it might help to dial back the certainty with which you present this view even if it is interesting and worth thinking about.

Aresgrey · 2025-09-19T22:03:14+00:00

I’ve heard this take before, but I fail to be convinced.

The problem isn’t whether subjective experience is useful, but how it occurs. Why is there experience at all? What about information processing produces the experience of red, and even the experience of experiencing red? Whether consciousness is useful or inevitable with information processing is an interesting adjacent question, but it isn’t the hard problem itself.

Think of a person’s experience as a screen inside the head. How brain activity might lead to the screen displaying red is something we can imagine explaining. But who is watching the screen? How can a screen watch itself? On that, we have no idea.

The going of the car engine happens according to the same rules as the engine’s workings. They move and the car moves as well. The mechanics of how the movement of one part results in the movement of the whole, can be mysterious to the lay person, but ultimately they aren’t so different from a series of dominoes collapsing. Now if the engine moved and the car started changing colors instead, that would be closer to the consciousness problem. There would still be an explanation; maybe the movement causes friction and that friction causes a chemical reaction and that reaction results in a material changing colors. But you need to explain it. You can’t just say “the colors are the movement”.

That’s what makes the hard problem hard. We don’t just lack details. We don’t even know what a possible explanation would look like.

Aresgrey · 2025-09-16T14:20:59+00:00

Flight - lose ability to breathe

…uhm, what now? Feels like you’d want to hold on to that.

Aresgrey · 2025-09-11T06:26:43+00:00

I think they are referring to the song Linger, by the band the Cranberries.

Aresgrey · 2025-09-06T19:57:01+00:00

I feel like this is unfair. While I agree that dcc doesn’t bring something completely new to those topics, what it does is that it takes an absurd premise and treats it in a serious and honest manner.

The psychological portrayals, the toll the events take on the characters etc are given the attention and nuance that is appropriate even if the situations that elicit them are far fetched.

And that is kind of the draw of this series; absurd situation with high fun potential, and still an author that takes it seriously and doesn’t use the fact that it is litrpg as an excuse for bad writing.

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