Consciousness-of-Itself in Music as Manifestation of Evolutionary-Memetic-Cognitive Processes
Journal of Consciousness Studies April 1, 2026 Steven Jan
Beyond the extra-musical connotations observed in much late eighteenth-century music, pattern recurrence sometimes appears to be associated with a strongly narrative meaning. As an example, certain late works of Beethoven possess a sense of self-'awareness' via self-referentiality. There is the potential for seeing this as the manifestation by music of a degree of independence from the...