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Despite being presented in language which suggests that this is somehow settled science, it's actually trivially false given the existence of obvious counterex
by Tossrock 5y ago
Despite being presented in language which suggests that this is somehow settled science, it's actually trivially false given the existence of obvious counterexamples, eg music which provokes an emotional response without any lyrics to be evaluated for truth, or music with lyrics in a language the listener doesn't speak and cannot evaluate the truth of. This is pure, unfounded speculation masquerading as insight.
- trgn 5y ago100% Music is embodied, more so than speech. The real relationship between communication and some axiomatic irreducible form of human expression flows the other way. Good literature is close to poetry, good poetry is close to music, good music is close to dance. And dance is the sublimation of sex or combat. Communication as an artful expression, the closest thing to conveying Truth, comes from within, it precedes consciousness. Music is much closer to that than speech. We are much less human when without music, than we are when without speech.
- leobg 5y agoSo porn is the highest form of human expression?
- quocanh 5y agoAbsolutely. You can spot the logical leap when the author goes from "music COULD BE a superstimulus for speech" to "music IS a superstimulus for speech" with absolutely no evidence or argument in between.