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Okay, so I understand that your opinion is that my assertions are not
science and are "evidence-free". You have an extremely low opinion of
my thought process, and you attempt to insult me by claiming I'm even
lower than the Intelligent Design folks.

Guilty as charged.

Regarding intelligent design folks and identifying holes in the theory:
I'm not aware of anything you think you can't explain. That's part of
my objection: once you model subjective perception (musical "feeling")
as an arbitrary function which a priori is not explainable, then by
circular reasoning you end up with nothing unexplainable.

There are zillions of things I can't explain. I can't explain why you
think one performance of Beethoven's Fifth is more appealing than
another. I might be able to explain why you prefer one speaker to
another. I can certainly explain why you can't tell two cables apart,
and why your aesthetic judgments of a piece of music won't be affected
by which cable you use--assuming you don't know which cable you are
using.

I happen to think that experiments about perception should be informed
by observations on the "inside". I do not claim one is above the other:
but when observations from the "inside" suggest a certain model, then
experiments to confirm or rule out that model should happen. If
invoking "insider" knowledge is not science, then so be it.

I admit to having no idea what you are talking about here.

OTOH, I think that you have a very specific notion of what "science"
should be, and that's just your opinion, and not a universal truth

Universally accepted within the scientific community.

about how one should investigate the world. You remind me of the
behaviorists in biology.

Who?

And furthermore, basing your entire model on a small set of
experimental methods is in my opinion not scientifically sound, even if
you end up with nothing you can't explain.

We needn't concern ourselves with your--or anyone's--*opinion* of
science. The requirements of scientific inquiry are not mere opinions.

bob