[MD] Music as Intellect?

[Robert Tittivulus Tittivulus]

Marha said in Dec.,21, quote: 
 
"Since experience is value, the most basic components of any 
'experience' would seem to be intellectual, social, biological & 
inorganic patterns of value (experience), and the code of art 
level.  This seems so obvious.  Am I missing something?"
 
 Marsha, I don't think you are missing something, only that you are a bit ahead of me. I might get there…eventually.
 
  The key word here may be 'any'. If one is talking of  'any experience', that is a higher level of abstraction than talking of  'a' (particular) experience. Let's say that in a particular experience the components are A,B,C,D, E, F…etc. From that list we group A,C and E  into a class or type that we call social, B and F as biological and so on. That is, we impose a certain order to a random list of components, by classifying them into classes. That's why I say you are ahead of me; I was thinking first merely at the level of A,B,C. considered as mental states(and/or phenomenal states?).
 
    Instead of 'any' experience I'd like to consider first a particular experience ( I have a weakness for monographs) in this case 'a' music experience, considered as a conscious, perceptual experience.  (Dainton's: Stream of Consciousness, Unity and Continuity in Conscious Experience) 
 
   Take, for instance, B for attention, D for perception, E for acknowledgment; whether attention is intellectual or biological is one line of enquiry. Whether attention is a component of experience and, if so, which role does it play and how important this role might be, is another line of enquiry (the one I intended to pursue). Goes without saying that I haven't set forth to rediscover the wheel, the field has been well ploughed. As I said, I was  just expounding.  
 
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