<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Perhaps a precursor to music was rhythm. Think of the use of drums sending messages a long way. And, at least to me, a good rhythm makes my feet start tapping, which leads to the invention of dance. While dancing one might vocalize one's enjoyment and that could lead to primitive musical notes. I wish I had studied the history of African music while I was a music major. bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Oct 26, 2024 at 5:30 AM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>It is said that music is a universal language. This would bolster that statement.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Oct 26, 2024, 3:32 AM Kelly Anderson via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>-Kelly</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Oct 11, 2024 at 1:17 PM Keith Henson via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Music is a side effect of our ability to speak and the bilateral<br>
symmetry of the brain. A stroke in the area opposite Broca's area<br>
wipes out musical ability. (This is in one of Oliver Sacks' books.)<br>
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Keith<br><br>
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