Our sense of a composition largely inheres in how we feel about the individual parts; narrative arcs are almost always essential in drama but (unless there are lyrics involved) often less essential in music. All of this is, I suspect, again symptomatic of human memory limitations. We live, to a remarkable degree, in the present; what happened thirty seconds ago is already rapidly fading from our memory (or at least rapidly becomes harder for us to retrieve). Gary F. Marcus
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The way we perceive something totally depends on the context. For example, you can see that things are changing in nature or just by looking at the way things are changing. However, if you actually look at the changes, they are not that obvious. The best example is when you use a camera. When the light is bad the picture looks very different than when it is good.

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