The British philosopher Alan Watts, author of The Wisdom of Insecurity, put it this way: If you want to study a river, you don’t take out a bucketful of water and stare at it on the shore. A river is not its water, and by taking the water out of the river, you lose the essential quality of river, which is its motion, its activity, its flow. Rosch felt that scientists had disrupted the flow of categories by studying them in such artificial ways. This, incidentally, is the same problem with a lot of the research that has been done in the neuroscience of music for the past decade: Too many
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