[extropy-chat] Fwd: SURVIVAL: An impulse behind transhumanism?

[Samantha Atkins]

On Jul 3, 2006, at 2:32 PM, MB wrote:

>
>> Therefore modern babies will tend to scream their heads off when  
>> it gets
>> too
>> still and quiet.
>>
>> Thank you very freaking much, evolution.  {8-[
>>
>>
>
> So put a radio or CD player in his room and play something. :)  
> Personally
> I'd choose really fine music in an effort to avoid whatever random  
> cr*p
> might come through on any radio program. Or a loud ticking clock, like
> they use for orphaned puppies. The kid has had 9 months of intense
> unavoidable internal noises: heartbeat, digestion, conversation, etc.
> Silence must be quite shocking.

A while back there were claims that playing classical music to babies  
and toddlers greatly aided the flowering of their intelligence.

- samantha