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55 Daniel Levitin - The Organized Mind

Inquiring Minds

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Music Is Aural Cheesecake

Stephen Pinker who's a linguist has said suggested that music is auditory cheesecake. He says in hunter-gatherer times just like we had a palate a taste a perclivity towards newness and sought out fats and sweets because they were scarce it was evolutionary adaptive to have a desire for them. The implication to many musicians is that well you'll get sick on it like you get sick on cheesecake if you have too much of it the to add insult to injury. We're not going to know until Mr. Peabody brings the way back machine to us and we can actually time travel and see what happened 10,000 years ago.

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