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Expectations can preempt rules. Expectations, though, are NOT rules. In society, we may have had an expectation that one would conduct themselves in a specific way. When they didn't meet the expectation, the rule was needed to justify some "enforcement" of the conduct expected. We simply disagree on how this occurs. Any scientific system dealing with anything is observed by a subject. This is not limited to psychology or neurology. My problem in scientific discourse is how much conclusive material is "assumed" from data when it often doesn't follow conclusively from the data. So, "what cannot be said" is often stated anyway, in assumptions made that may or may not follow the data. This is something I think Wittgenstein may have been attempting to address. So, now we're creating another conundrum. Just because I want to minimize and optimize formal systems doesn't mean either that I want to do away with all formal systems or that we should ignore them. The simple reality is that expectations exist, and while these formal systems exist in which these expectations emerge, composers need to know what these expectations are so they have the choices to make regarding them. Now I'm a parasite in the system. Cool. I just thought I was pointing out the obvious while you were ignoring every observation made. Rather than address the realities, you've subversively changed the football field into an air hockey table. Well done. I expect the weather to be cold tomorrow. There's no rule saying that it must be cold. So, I guess since there is no rule, my expectation is, what, irrational? Silly panda...