[ExI] what's the use?

[Kelly Anderson]

I recently saw a YouTube video (sorry, can't say which one I'm afraid, but
it was an interview by Neil DeGrass Tyson and friends) that proposed that
based upon some fuzzy unexplained data that musical ability might have
preceded our ability to speak by a relatively large time. It was a very
interesting proposition. So perhaps speech is a side effect of having
musical ability... and not the other way around.

-Kelly

On Fri, Oct 11, 2024 at 1:17 PM Keith Henson via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Music is a side effect of our ability to speak and the bilateral
> symmetry of the brain.  A stroke in the area opposite Broca's area
> wipes out musical ability.  (This is in one of Oliver Sacks' books.)
>
> Keith
>
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