The music is good for something and the rest for next to nothing
It's great that science begins to study the social roots of the music. Is there anything that sticks more than a good tune? All we know for sure , and it has been with us since the beginning of the first human tribes , is its universality. Everyone seems excited about tones and similar times .
All I know about music is its universality ... and this is a social event. I know nothing that can hold together a group for so long , maybe religion or political opinions. Now, the funny thing is that both religion and politics go less , while the melodies are more .
Precisely, perhaps this lack of practical usefulness of what makes music so loved by everyone . The language seems to follow in number of devotees , though for very different reasons : everyone can boast of being able to speak and convey a thought to others. A future neurologists their rightful detect whether the difference between the musical and spoken language is as big as it looks : the first does not seem to convey much, while the second has utilities: understood , concentrate and aim at achieving an objective determined.
But what if the differences were not as sharp ? In laboratories is proving to apes and humans that memories are much more fragile than previously thought , people tend to distort them with extreme ease and say 'Diego ' where I said ' tell ' . In addition , it appears that the cognitive processes of the brain are so complicated that we now know for certain that the unconscious decides for us a few milliseconds before we resolve , consciously, or not to eat , go to the right or left , forget an idea or remember .
What if it turned out that the music had preceded the language, but the latter had retained the genetic heritage of the first ? And neither serve another great thing . Of course, it is increasingly clear that more and more people snuggles to music while continuously increasing the number of those who distrust of language. I always say that a language not understood - that used to have to leave it to the body and movement , but to deceive one another, to make others believe what we want to believe.
Any scientist out there in the world trying to convince me that , contrary to what the Greek philosopher Plato said , the thought was not important , but the movement . The body had gotten such chicanery and advances the language or thought only needed to acompasarlos power to implement them . Have you stopped to think what my readers unlikely that results please correct me - mathematical equilibrium theory of bipedal animals like us? Neither God knows yet what allows us to walk with only two legs without losing balance , having to overcome - as - we have to do so many convoluted twists and turns and curves.
Let alone what some musicians play with magic fingers playing the piano one of the pieces of Mozart. Have you noticed how your fingers move memory without pulse and shake them respecting the melody that captivates us ? Maybe all that matters is precisely what fascinates us feel that we are part of the herd, empathize with others . Maybe the music is good for something and the rest for almost nothing.
