> It is quite possible that music has evolved as a mechanism of generating feelings that can be transferred to other things... and that original purpose has be

> It is quite possible that music has evolved as a mechanism of generating feelings that can be transferred to other things... and that original purpose has become obsolete. I don't think it's obsolete at all - it's intonation. Music is just hacking intonation perception. How you say something completely affects its meaning. You use a different voice for happy news or sad news or serious things or loving things or sarcasm. A good actor could make the same phrase mean 100 different things. I often think about this with voice recognition and claims of 99% accuracy. Yeah but it didn't get ANY of the intonation, and that's where most of the information was.