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David Byrne on How Music Connects Us

The Science of Happiness

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The Self Extends Beyond Us

American utopia starts with you, barefoot in a gray suit, holding a model brain and ou about how far we extend beyond the nurons that are contained within our skulls. There's this idea that's really emerging right now that music is a container of our identities over time and across boundaries. And it's a way that the self extends, like you say. Ye, as you begrudgingly say, you know, you honor what humans like to look at most, which is other humans. Let's own that idea.

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