Attuning to the Music

'No one remembers, word for word, all that was said in any lecture, or played in any piece. But, if you understood it once, you now own new networks of knowledge, about each theme and how it changes and relates to others. Thus, no one could remember Beethoven's Fifth Symphony entire, from a single hearing. But neither could you ever hear again those first four notes as just four notes! Once but a tiny scrap of sound; it is now a Known Thing - a locus in the web of all the other things that we know, whose meanings and significances depend on one another.'- Marvin Minsky