"As far as biological cause and effect are concerned," Pinker wrote in The Language Instinct, "music is useless. It shows no sign of design for attaining a goal such as long life, or grandchildren, or accurate perception and prediction of the world. Compared with language, vision, social reasoning, and physical know-how, music could vanish from our species and the rest of our lifestyle would be virtually unchanged."
-an excerpt from This Is Your Brain on Music
I beg to disagree.
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