Beasty beats: The origins of musicality (Ep 76)
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Is There a Difference Between Speech and Music?
If we run into an alien civilization at some point, would we be able to distinguish between them talking verses then playing music? Strangely enough, maybe humans are special. We can separate between the two. A good example, i think, is the speech du song allusion. That's a phenomenon that, if i explained, i give you the title of of the book, the evolving animal orchestra. If i do that a few times, i repeat it. After a while, you're not listening to me any more,. what i'm saying, but you're leaving o tidi cado to do de dugdor. So it gets saturated, the meaning gets lost, and it becomes
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