How on earth am I ignorant? How am I confused? It's obvious what I'm saying.
First, because you claim to know that one cannot learn perfect pitch, but at the same time you think that the nature of perfect pitch is a total mystery. They just contradict.
The other example is where you claim to explain why perfect pitch is annoying but then go on to tell us why it is handy.
Did I attempt to learn my native language? What has this got to do with bloody language? It's a pianoforum, not english language grammer correct forum forum is it?
Because music is a by product of language. One learns about music as one learns about language because the same system is in operation.
Fair enough I'm not good at grammer, but what has that got to do with perfect pitch.
You totally missed the point. I am not trying to correct your grammar. My point was that all people learn language without trying to learn it. This shows the nature of learning in humans. The fact that you claim that you have not learned perfect pitch because there wasn't a concious attempt to do so means nothing. Humans often automatically learn something. Most of the things you have learned you just absord automatically from your enviroment.
Humans are born with the genetic potentional to develop things like language, morality, social constructions. Under influence of their enviroment these systems develop in a particular way. This means one cannot teach a human, or animal, through reward and punishment. A child needs to be subjected to the right kinds of influence and these abillities will literally 'grow' in the right way. Really as organs, though we are talking about neurological connections.
This means all humans, that are healthy, have the natural ability to develop language. They aren't born with the ability to understand language. They do have the ability to automatically learn when one is subjected to language. When one is no longer a child one has to learn language differently. You have to actively learn it.
When one is not subjected to langauge one will never learn, no matter how talented.
If one lacks the genetic basis to learn langauge one will never be able to do so.
The same is probably true with perfect pitch. Of course through pure logic one can deduct that one can't have all this programmed in their genes. But when you understand the way humans learn something you know how perfect pitch may develop. Both contradict your ideas.
Perfect pitch is a mystery, there has been so signifacant theory's to prove how it is developed.
Again you contradict yourself.
You seriously don't get perfect pitch, it is not memorising or learning what things sound like. It's an abilty,
You are right here. You need to listen to a particular kind of element in the sound of a note. Once you condiction yourself to be aware of this you will slowly start to learn it, or not. Fact is that you have to be conditioned.
...if you could develop it every musician would have it. How am I ignorant about human cognition?
Every human can learn Mandarin or Finnish. Of course many people speak Mandarin and very little speak Finnish, but not everyone can speak it just because it can be learned. This is silly. The most difficults fields in math, everyone can learn it but very few people know it.
The fact that something can, or must, be learned does not mean everyone can do it. Obviously.
Also, eventhough these languages are learned not everyone trying to learn them will succes. It has nothing to do with the fact that it is learned or not. Learning doesn't mean you can do something when you try eventhough you couldn't before.
You are claiming that perfect pitch can be "learned" Why not check out the english language yourself before trying to inslut mine.
Why do you think I 'insulted', or critisized your English. If you found errors in mine, I am not a native speaker. English is my third language.
Why don't you inderstand that it is not linked with memory?
I never used the word 'memory' in that way. You are making a straw man. Learning langauge isn't 'just memory' either. Learning perfect pitch doesn't mean just memorising those notes. But if you don't you will never be able to name notes.
I think you must find this confusing to understand,
Why would I be confused?
BECAUSE I don't no any different, I've ALWAYS been like this, hence I did NOT learn it.
And I don't remember a time where I did not understand Dutch, my first language. Does that mean I never learned it? Uuh...
Could some people with perfect pitch please back me up here, maybe someone else can explain it in simple terms to this guy.
I know what perfect pitch is.
The fact that out of all the people I've met who have tried to learn it still don't have total and absloute perfect pitch.
Yes, it is very hard to learn. Most that try to learn it at later age will never become 'naturals' at it. But that doesn't mean the 'naturals' never learned it.
And I've never heard of anyone who's develped it. If you're theory is correct, why don't they teach perfect pitch to people at conseravtoires?
They do teach perfect pitch at some conservatories. Why I don't teach it? I switched careers.