[ExI] what's the use?

[BillK]

On Sat, 26 Oct 2024 at 08:33, Kelly Anderson via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> 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.
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> -Kelly
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The relationship between music and language is still being argued.
Darwin's theory suggesting that music predates language is the
"musical protolanguage hypothesis."
Another theory proposes that music and language co-evolved
synergistically, influencing each other's development over time. This
is known as the "musilanguage hypothesis".
This article discusses the theories.
 <https://www.atharomusic.com/features/did-music-come-before-language>
Quote:
However, it's essential to recognize that the question of whether
music came before language or vice versa remains a topic of ongoing
debate and speculation among scholars. The origins of music and
language are likely intertwined, with both emerging gradually over
millennia of human evolution in response to complex social, cognitive,
and environmental pressures.
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BillK