[ExI] what's the use?

[Adrian Tymes]

It is said that music is a universal language.  This would bolster that
statement.

On Sat, Oct 26, 2024, 3:32 AM Kelly Anderson via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> 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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