I believe that art, literature, and music etc are ways our brain hones its abilities for problem solving. It’s constantly at work thinking up imaginative problems and their solutions.
Music for example has underlying mathematical structure or patterns that allows the brain to hone pattern resolving skills. We evolutionarily enjoy it because it’s useful and rewarding in the long run.
Literature allows to imaginatively think up various social scenarios and weigh different moral theories in response and contemplate their pros an cons—it also allows to explore those possible scenarios without actually having the opportunity to to have experience them in real life as there is quite a likelihood not every individual may face them. It creative endeavor and prepares us for unexpected situations and how to quickly deal with them.
Music for example has underlying mathematical structure or patterns that allows the brain to hone pattern resolving skills. We evolutionarily enjoy it because it’s useful and rewarding in the long run.
Literature allows to imaginatively think up various social scenarios and weigh different moral theories in response and contemplate their pros an cons—it also allows to explore those possible scenarios without actually having the opportunity to to have experience them in real life as there is quite a likelihood not every individual may face them. It creative endeavor and prepares us for unexpected situations and how to quickly deal with them.
