Calculus, Logic, Music and the Human Brain

[Statler Waldorf]

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As much as the drum solo in "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" or the drum solo in Take Five" by Dave Brubeck, but that is not what either of us mean.

A song bird sings a tune that is rhythmic and musical. It possible to put a bird song down on paper as sheet music and play it with different instruments. Is it Beethoven? No, but it follows the rules of rhythm and progression. This shows the capability of music in the genes. Hell, dinosaurs may have whistled tunes.

Anyway, the capability of music in the genes along with the higher intellect of man, presents us with the ability to create abstract music, i.e., beyond what is in our genes or what we hear. The first music was probably percussion (piano and harpsichord excluded) and vocal imitations of the song birds.

I fail to see why you cannot appreciate the music birds present us with and accept it as such, unless you are just stuck in argument mode, refusing to give in no matter what. Facts and empirical data be damned, full speed ahead. (and we have not yet touched on whales which create a unique song every year)

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No argument mode here, I am in a pretty chipper mood this evening. I already conceded to you that you could call birds singing music; I just don’t think it’s the same sort of thing as human music. I also think the only reason we consider it music is because humans have a musical ear. It’d be a stretch to say it is music to the bird itself.

I found something you said interesting….you said as far as our genes could take us? How is there anything past our genes? How can we do or think anything that is not determined in our genetic make-up? That seems like you are wandering astray from the naturalistic path on that one.

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Yeah, actually I can. When someones work is picked over and determined to be bullshit by science at large, I get to say exactly that. In fact....thats exactly how the process works. You don't like it, and so you call apologetics science, but again, bullshit, and I don't know why anyone should care.

Scientific fact is not determined by consensus or majority.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLrpBLDWyCI

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