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The Music Instinct
Web edition: October 22, 2010
Print edition: November 6, 2010; Vol.178 #10 (p. 30)
A journalist draws on neuroscience, anthropology and philosophy to explore the universal human experience of music.
Oxford Univ. Press, 2010, 452 p., $29.95.
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On Touch And Hear Senses
(pulse.yahoo.com)
Why Music Touches-Moves Us
(Nov 11, 2005 DH,biologicalEvolution forum)
Music is a human cultural-artifactual elaboration of creatures' vocal communication which is an extension-elaboration of >24 wks-old in-womb fetus' and of newborns' intimate safe/coddle/sooth experiences. Both 'touch' and 'hear' senses are founded on mechanical sensing processes involving in-cell ions leakage forming electrical action potentials interpreted neurologically.
I suggest/conjecture that the same neurological constellation may be handling both 'touch' and 'hear' senses, being of commom mechanisms and differing essentially only in switch-on modes, and that this evolves in all vocal creatures in conjunction with in-womb safety, followed with baby codling/handling and vocal soothing/communicating, and later also with intimate emotional implications. Hence music has 'engulfing-touching-emotional' connotation and personal music orientation has also childhood-ethnic rootings.
Dov Henis
(Comments From 22nd Century)
Dov HenisSep. 26, 2010 at 3:30am
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