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    Challenges→Music cannot express particular concepts of objects such as the concept of a rose or a poplar tree

    Conventional associations between musical figures and specific objects (e.g., the cuckoo motif representing the bird) demonstrate that conceptual content can be reliably encoded and decoded in music.

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    Cuckoo motif(as used as an example in this statement)
    A famous musical phrase (a few notes that sound like a cuckoo bird's call) that composers have used for centuries to make listeners think of the actual bird.
    Decode(as used in communication and meaning)
    To understand or extract the meaning from something that's been expressed in a particular form (like hearing a musical motif and understanding what it represents).
    Encode(as used in metaphysics)
    To contain or express something in a compressed or underlying form, like how DNA encodes the instructions for building a living organism.
    Musical motif(as used in music and philosophy of art)
    A short, recognizable musical phrase or melody that often gets repeated and can stand for a particular idea or character.
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