<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">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;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" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">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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