Monday, July 23, 2012

Why scientists often garner disrespect......

     "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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